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Getting Lost – WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE

By Annie Ernaux
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Getting Lost by Annie Ernaux delves into the author's intense and introspective account of a passionate affair she had in the 1980s with a younger Russian diplomat. This memoir reveals Ernaux's diary entries, providing a raw and candid look into her emotions and reflections, deeply exploring themes of desire, identity, and the passage of time.
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You might enjoy this book if you're intrigued by deeply personal narratives that explore the complexities of desire, solitude, and self-discovery. This memoir offers a raw and honest portrayal of an affair that delves into the intersection of personal and cultural identity.

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Getting Lost – WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE

Lauded for her spare prose, Ernaux here removes all artifice, her writing pared down to its most naked and vulnerable. Translated brilliantly for the first time by Alison L. Strayer, Getting Lost is a haunting record of a woman in the grips of love, desire and despair.

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Getting Lost is the diary kept by Annie Ernaux during the year and a half she had a secret love affair with a younger, married man, an attaché to the Soviet embassy in Paris. Her novel, Simple Passion, was based on this affair, but here her writing is immediate and unfiltered.

In these diaries, it is 1989 and Annie is divorced with two grown sons, living in the suburbs of Paris and nearing fifty. Her lover escapes the city to see her there and Ernaux seems to survive only in expectation of these encounters. She cannot write, she trudges distractedly through her various other commitments in the world, she awaits his next call; she lives merely to feel desire and for the next rendezvous. When he is gone and the moment of desire has faded, she feels that she is a step closer to death.

"I find her work extraordinary." - Eimear McBride, author of A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing

"Ernaux has inherited de Beauvoir's role of chronicler to a generation." - Margaret Drabble

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Getting Lost by Annie Ernaux has garnered praise for its deep exploration of intimacy, passion, and the human condition. Ernaux is compared to compulsive indulgence, much like addiction, leading readers through the tumultuous emotional landscape of waiting and longing. Critics commend her for intertwining themes of love, death, and literature with raw honesty and providing an intimate portrayal of personal experiences without voyeurism. Her work is noted for its innovativeness in memoir writing and for echoing the impactful narrative style reminiscent of Simone de Beauvoir.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781913097004

Publisher: Fitzcarraldo Editions

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 21 September 2022

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Fitzcarraldo Editions

Contributors:

  • Translated by Alison L. Strayer
  • Translated by Alison L. Strayer

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 125.0mm

Height: 197.0mm

Weight: 0g

Pages: 224

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Annie Ernaux Biography & Memoir Non-Fiction

About the Author

Born in 1940, Annie Ernaux grew up in Normandy, studied at Rouen University, and later taught at secondary school. From 1977 to 2000, she was a professor at the Centre National d'Enseignement par Correspondance. Her books, in particular A Man's Place and A Woman's Story, have become contemporary classics in France. The Years won the Prix Renaudot in France in 2008, the Premio Strega in Italy in 2016, and was shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize in 2019. In 2017, Annie Ernaux was awarded the Marguerite Yourcenar Prize for her life's work.

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