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The Lover (French: L'Amant) is an autobiographical novel by Marguerite Duras, published in 1984 by Les Éditions de Minuit. It has been translated into 43 languages and was awarded the 1984 Prix Goncourt. It was adapted to film in 1992 as The Lover.
Aug 1, 2023 · The novelistic memoir The Lover by Marguerite Duras (1914–96) is a modernist story of sexual coming of age in French colonial Vietnam. It is also a portrait of the young author.
Jan 1, 2001 · Set against the backdrop of French colonial Vietnam, The Lover reveals the intimacies and intricacies of a clandestine romance between a pubescent girl from a financially strapped French family and an older, wealthy Chinese-Vietnamese man. 117 pages, Paperback.
Sep 8, 1998 · by Marguerite Duras (Author) 4.1 1,753 ratings. See all formats and editions. A modern classic and international bestseller with more than one million copies in print, The Lover has been celebrated by critics and readers across the globe since its first publication in 1984.
The Lover (L’amant in the original French) by Marguerite Duras was published in 1984. It is a semi-autobiographical novel that recounts a young girl’s affair with a wealthy, older Chinese man in French-colonized Vietnam.
Nov 21, 2017 · In “The Lover,” the older man has no name, but his skin smells like honey. In reality, his name was Léo, and he revolted Duras. His face was badly pockmarked, his hands trembled, his mouth ...
Set in the prewar Indochina of Marguerite Duras’s childhood, this is the haunting tale of a tumultuous affair between an adolescent French girl and her Chinese lover. In spare yet luminous prose, Duras evokes life on the margins of Saigon in the waning days of France’s colonial empire, and its representation in the passionate relationship ...
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Sep 8, 1998 · The Lover. Marguerite Duras. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Sep 8, 1998 - Fiction - 128 pages. A modern classic and international bestseller with more than one million copies in print, The...
Jul 27, 2009 · The lover. by. Duras, Marguerite. Publication date. 1985. Publisher. New York : Pantheon Books. Collection. internetarchivebooks; delawarecountydistrictlibrary; americana; printdisabled.
