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Jul 27, 2009 · Overrated book. Weak translation into English adds to the garbled narcissistic melange of non-consequential sentences. Frankly, it was not worth the effort to fight through the turgid text to get to the trite ending of old lovers reconnecting on the telephone after years of no contact - the stuff of Mills and Boon, Do not waste time reading ...
Aug 4, 2009 · The lover by Duras, Marguerite. Publication date 1986 Publisher New York : Perennial Library Collection internetarchivebooks; americana; printdisabled Contributor
3 hours ago · Duras Marguerite 1984 The Lover. An autobiographical story, the novel "From the Cradle to the Grave" intertwined in three time periods, thematically determined by childhood as the central plot - based on the memories of an elderly lady in her later years - a distinctive author, with a distinctive style for whom awareness of writing and writing ...
“The text of The Lover was originally called The Ultimate Image, or The Full Picture (L’Image absolue). It was to accompany an album of photographs…” (Marguerite Duras, interview in Le Nouvel Observateur, 1984). So the camera flashes (where indicated) and the following set details are vital and must be adhered to.
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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...
Nov 15, 2022 · 117. Previews available in: English. Subjects. Large type books , Fiction, romance, historical , Young women, fiction , China, fiction , Continental european fiction (fictional works by one author) , Teenage girls , Fiction , Man-woman relationships. Showing 2 featured editions. View all 16 editions? Add another edition? Book Details. Published in.
The Lover. Marguerite Duras. 0 / 5.0. 0 comments. An international best-seller with more than one million copies in print and a winner of France's Prix Goncourt, The Lover has been acclaimed by critics all over the world since its first publication in 1984. “Powerful, authentic, completely successful... perfect.” - The New York Times Book Review.
