中文简介：

这部作品是Annie Ernaux在与一位已婚俄罗斯外交官秘密恋爱一年半时间里所写的日记。她的另一部作品《单纯的激情》就是以这段恋情为基础创作的，但在这部作品中，Ernaux的写作更直接。

日记中，现在是1989年，Annie已经离婚，接近50岁，住在巴黎以外的地方，有两个成年的儿子。她的爱人逃离城市到那里看她，Ernaux似乎只在期待这些相遇中生存，她说“他对我的渴望是我**可以确定的事情。”她不能写作，她心不在焉地在世界的其他各种承诺中跋涉，她等待着他的下一个电话；她活着只是为了感受欲望和下一次约会。当他走了，欲望消失了，她觉得自己离死亡又近了一步。

Ernaux因其闲散的散文而备受赞誉，在这里，她抛弃了所有技巧，写作被精简到最赤裸和最脆弱的地方。这部作品呈现了一个令人难以忘怀、绝望的观点，描绘了一个强大而成功的女人，她引诱一个男人，结果却在爱和欲望中迷失了自己。

英文简介：

Getting 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 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. Getting Lost is as strong a book as any that she has written, a haunting, desperate view of strong and successful woman who seduces a man only to lose herself in love and desire.