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Simple Passion
Reader Score
78%
78% of readers
recommend this book
A New York Times Notable Book
In her spare, stark style, Annie Ernaux documents the desires and indignities of a human heart ensnared in an all-consuming passion.
Blurring the line between fact and fiction, an unnamed narrator attempts to plot the emotional and physical course of her 2 year relationship with a married foreigner where every word, event, and person either provides a connection with her beloved or is subject to her cold indifference.
With courage and exactitude, she seeks the truth behind an existence lived entirely for someone else, and, in the pieces of its aftermath, she is able to find it.
Book Details
- Publisher: Seven Stories Press
- Publish Date: Aug 5th, 2003
- Pages: 67
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 8.10in - 5.40in - 0.40in - 0.20lb
- EAN: 9781583225745
- Categories: • General
About the Author
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What people are saying
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“Getting Lost,” by Annie Ernaux, translated from the French by Alison L. Strayer Ernaux’s “Simple Passion” is about her affair with A., as she calls her lover. A decade later, she has published excerpts of the diary that she kept during the affair. https://t.co/WDcGgGPtVz https://t.co/eodj8tUdub
"It is a powerful depiction of being lost—or perhaps enveloped—by another person and, with apologies to Graham Greene and Anne Serre, possibly the best book about an affair ever written."
Praise for this book
"A work of lyrical precision and diamond-hard clarity." --The New Yorker
"A stunning story, despite its detachment and the careful exclusions of any excess, that pulsates with the very passion Ernaux so truthfully describes ... Small, but abundantly wise." --Kirkus Reviews
"All this--the suffering and anxiety of waiting, the brief soulagement of lovemaking, the lethargy and fatigue that follow, the renewal of desire, the little indignities and abjections of both obsession and abandonment--Ernaux tells with calm, almost tranquillized matter-of-factness [that] feels like determination, truth to self, clarity of purpose." --The Washington Post
What people are saying
Unparalleled reporting and commentary on politics and culture, plus humor and cartoons, fiction and poetry. Get our Daily newsletter: https://t.co/CW0Z2jHao9
“Getting Lost,” by Annie Ernaux, translated from the French by Alison L. Strayer Ernaux’s “Simple Passion” is about her affair with A., as she calls her lover. A decade later, she has published excerpts of the diary that she kept during the affair. https://t.co/WDcGgGPtVz https://t.co/eodj8tUdub
"It is a powerful depiction of being lost—or perhaps enveloped—by another person and, with apologies to Graham Greene and Anne Serre, possibly the best book about an affair ever written."