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Getting Lost
- By: Annie Ernaux, Alison L. Strayer - translator
- Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
- Length: 7 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall2.5 out of 5 stars 18
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Performance3.5 out of 5 stars 14
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Story2.5 out of 5 stars 14
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 desire has faded, she feels that she is a step closer to death.
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1 out of 5 stars
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one of the worst books I have ever read
- By sara a. conti on 06-12-23
- Getting Lost
- By: Annie Ernaux, Alison L. Strayer - translator
- Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
How did this win the Nobel Prize in Literature
Reviewed: 02-23-23
I don’t know if it was the performance but this book is a travesty. Are the Nobel prize committee members all men who believe this desperation for a man by a woman is something that rings true of all women and captures their sense of self-worth or what but this was horrible. Perhaps if they had a french reader who read this journal with a french sensibility and with some level of ennui vs the reader who reads this with such a tone of desperation that I it was annoying from start to … well I couldn’t finish it. I might actually try reading it to finish it to see if a different voice gives it a different perspective. Thus far it reads like a bad, repetitive 13 year olds lovesick journal but if you add adult acts in it.
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