351 reviews for:

Getting Lost

Annie Ernaux

3.52 AVERAGE


Dans ce livre, Annie Ernaux nous décrit via son journal, son désir d’un homme qui n’était pas amoureuse d’elle. On y observe alors progressivement l’aliénation totale de l’auteure face à ce désir, dont la vie n’a plus aucun sens sans celui-ci. On y observe le bonheur du début de cette relation, puis petit à petit comment l’auteure sombre dans des tourments d’anxiété et un malheur profond.
J’ai beaucoup apprécié ce livre, surtout dans l’honnêteté et la transparence des mots, permettant de reconstituer au mieux le vécu de ce genre de désir qui éclipse tous les autres aspects d’une vie.
Je ne pourrai pas en dire plus sur ce livre tellement il m’a fait me questionner sur pleins de sujets.
reflective fast-paced

Pretty repetitive, it is a diary though & definitely well written. Girly loves sex 

Penso che il mio problema principale con questo libro sia il semplice fatto che generalmente provo un senso di rifiuto verso le donne che si annientano per un uomo. È un mio limite, lo ammetto.
Non è orribile, ma sinceramente non riesco a dargli più di due stelle.
Non è stata una buona idea avvicinarmi a questa autrice cominciando da questo libro.

roxy_boettcher's review

4.25
medium-paced
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trishdishreads's review

5.0

This was a wild and horny ride. I hadn't read any Ernaux before she won the Nobel Prize in literature. So this was my introduction. Now that I've read more I realize it's kinda a weird place to start. But I loved the brutal, unflattering and unsteady representation of this love affair. The narrative follows Ernaux's love affair. But the reason to read it is to watch her own presentation and understanding of herself change so radically, swinging between feelings of confidence and feelings of being lost to herself. She recreates this loving obsession with a man (who mostly seems boring and generally no-good) as parallel to her own obsession with art and writing. The love of both derails her and returns her to herself.

anna21's review

4.0
emotional sad medium-paced
adventurous dark emotional reflective sad fast-paced

this book thoroughly embarrassed me, it felt like me and ernaux briefly shared a part of my brain i didn’t know i was agreeing to share. her vulnerability became my own, and once i got done being annoyed with that, i really enjoyed this book.

The Writing of obsession or the obsession of writing.
dark emotional medium-paced