The novel “Lost” opens a postmodern line in the work of the largest and most “uncomfortable” German-speaking writer of our time, the winner of the Nobel Prize in 2004, Elfrida Jelinek .. His theme makes violence and power in private and intimate life, the role of women in the world of total consumerism, the dominance of myths of everyday consciousness in relations between people and the inexhaustible loneliness of a person in the face of everyday dying. This book can also be defined as an anti-pornographic novel, an evil virtuoso parody of the form and language of pornography, which swept and corroded the head of the modern layman. Since AIDS has reached the resort alpine valley and threatens all lovers of change, Herman, the all-powerful director of the local factory, has to abandon prostitutes and limit his sexual diet to one single woman - his wife Gertie. Beautiful-rich-happy Gertie is fed up with her husband's routine unbearable daily "one and the same". But to leave is to lose everything. She regularly tries to run away from home but usually ends up at a police station. And then one day, on a snow-covered road, a student picks her up in a home coat and slippers and...