这是作者以自己的坎坷爱情经历为题材写出的一个动人的爱情故事。小说中的“我”既是位作家,又是个叙述者和女主人公。她见多识广,在爱情上有过不少挫折,在事业上已有所建树,但患有难治的不育症。她的情人贝尔纳比她年轻得多,聪明而又能干,但忧心忡忡,在新闻业和精神分析学之间犹豫徘徊。他俩尽管年龄 This is a touching love story written by the author with his own rough experience of love. “I” in the novel is not only a bit writer, but also a narrator and heroine. She is well informed, has had many setbacks in love and has done something in his career, but he has refractory infertility. Her lover Bernard was a lot younger, clever and capable than she, but worried, hovering between journalism and psychoanalysis. Both of them despite their age