Getting lost

R$ 119,90

Sinopse

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.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.

Participantes

Autor: Annie Ernaux

Tradutor: Alison L. Strayer

Autor

ANNIE ERNAUX

(França, 1940) foi laureada com o prêmio máximo da literatura mundial por conta da "coragem e precisão clínica" de obras avessas à invenção, que exploram o limite da experiência como ferramenta artística. Quem abre os livros de Annie, encontra o que ela própria define como "escrita plana", um texto despido de ornamentos e sentimentalismos, histórias que transitam entre o romance, o relato e o diário, que emergem do particular e dão sentido ao universal, e que, nas palavras da Academia Sueca, revelam "as raízes, estranhamentos e repressões coletivas da memória pessoal".