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The diary of one of France’s most important, award-winning writers during the year she had a passionate and secret love affair with a Russian diplomat"The journal is relentless in its presentation of her pain and abasement, but no less so in its effort to dissect what just happened. Here is the same deep probing for truth, the same fanatical quest for self-awareness to be found in all Ernaux’s work... " - Sigrid Nunez, The New York Review of BooksGetting Lost is the diary Annie Ernaux kept during the year and a half she had a secret love affair with a younger, married man, a Russian diplomat. Her novel, Simple Passion, was based on this affair, but here her writing is immediate, unfiltered. In these diaries it is 1989 and Annie is divorced with two grown sons, living outside 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, saying “his desire for me is the only thing I can be sure of.” She cannot write, she trudges distractedly through her various other commitments in the world, she awaits his next call; she lives only to feel desire and for the next rendezvous. When he is gone and the de

Who reads Getting Lost?

Author

Annie Ernaux; Alison L. Strayer

Publisher

Seven Stories Press

Published

2022

Language

EN

ISBN

9781644212196

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Memoir, Romance

Rating

3.88 / 5 (42 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14