The Lover

The Lover PDF Author: Marguerite Duras
Publisher: Pantheon
ISBN: 0307801209
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 129

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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. 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 between two unforgettable outcasts. Long unavailable in hardcover, this edition of The Lover includes a new introduction by Maxine Hong Kingston that looks back at Duras's world from an intriguing new perspective--that of a visitor to Vietnam today.

The Lover

The Lover PDF Author: Marguerite Duras
Publisher: Pantheon
ISBN: 0307801209
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 129

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Book Description
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. 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 between two unforgettable outcasts. Long unavailable in hardcover, this edition of The Lover includes a new introduction by Maxine Hong Kingston that looks back at Duras's world from an intriguing new perspective--that of a visitor to Vietnam today.

The Impudent Ones

The Impudent Ones PDF Author: Marguerite Duras
Publisher: The New Press
ISBN: 1620976609
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 271

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Published for the first time in English, the debut novel of Marguerite Duras—renowned author of The Lover and The War—is the story of a family’s moral reckoning and a daughter’s fall from grace Marguerite Duras rose to global stardom with her erotic masterpiece The Lover (L’Amant), which won the prestigious Prix Goncourt, has over a million copies in print in English, has been translated into forty-three languages, and was adapted into a canonical film in 1992. While almost all of Duras’s novels have been translated into English, her debut The Impudent Ones (Les Impudents) has been a glaring exception—until now. Fans of Duras will be thrilled to discover the germ of her bold, vital prose and signature blend of memoir and fiction in this intense and mournful story of the Taneran family, which introduces Duras’s classic themes of familial conflict, illicit romance, and scandal in the sleepy suburbs and southwest provinces of France. Duras’s great gift was her ability to bring vivid and passionate life to characters with whom society may not have sympathized, but with whom readers certainly do. With storytelling that evokes in equal parts beauty and brutality, The Impudent Ones depicts the scalding effects of seduction and disrepute on the soul of a young French girl. Including an essay on the story behind The Impudent Ones by Jean Vallier—biographer of the late Duras—which contextualizes the origins of Duras’s debut novel, this one-of-a-kind publishing endeavor will delight established Duras fans and a new generation of readers alike.

Two by Duras

Two by Duras PDF Author: Marguerite Duras
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 104

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Marguerite Duras

Marguerite Duras PDF Author: Laure Adler
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226007588
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 432

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Now available in English, the bestseller of France traces the life of one of that country's most prolific yet controversial figures. The life of the author of "The Lover" and "The War: A Memoir" is explored through events central to Duras's career by means of letters, unpublished manuscripts, and interviews. Photos.

Me & Other Writing

Me & Other Writing PDF Author: Marguerite Duras
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 1948980029
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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A career-spanning collection of Marguerite Duras’s genre-bending essays that Kirkus calls “a luminous, erudite exploration of the self and art.” In her nonfiction as well as her fiction, Marguerite Duras’s curiosity was endless, her intellect voracious. Within a single essay she might roam from Flaubert to the “scattering of desire” to the Holocaust; within the body of her essays overall, style is always evolving, subject matter shifting, as her mind pushes beyond the obvious toward ever-original ground. Me & Other Writing is a guidebook to the extraordinary breadth of Duras’s nonfiction. From the stunning one-page “Me” to the sprawling 70-page “Summer 80,” there is not a piece in this collection that can be easily categorized. These are essayistic works written for their times but too virtuosic to be relegated to history, works of commentary or recollection or reportage that are also, unmistakably, works of art.

No More

No More PDF Author:
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
ISBN: 9781609802721
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : fr
Pages : 228

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Sex, and death. All of Marguerite Duras's writings are suffused with the certitude that absolute love is both necessary (sex) ... and impossible to achieve (death). But no book of hers embodies this idea so powerfully, so excessively, as No More (C'est Tout), the book she composed during the last year of her life until just days before her death. No More is literature shorn of all its niceties, a shout from the depths of Duras's being, celebrating life in defiance of the death she knew had already entered her immediate future. In part, it is also Duras' raucous salutation welcoming death. No More is a collection of words as pure as poetry and as full-throated as a fish-wife's call to market her wares, a disturbing and lasting challenge to any reader.

La Douleur

La Douleur PDF Author: Marguerite Duras
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN:
Category : Authors, French
Languages : en
Pages : 200

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Four Novels

Four Novels PDF Author: Marguerite Duras
Publisher: Grove Press
ISBN: 9780802151117
Category : French fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 274

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"In this volume of four short novels, Duras demonstrates her remarkable ability to create an emotional intensity and unity by focusing on the intimate details of the relationships among only a few central characters: from the park bench couple in "The Square" (1955) to the double love triangle in "10:30 on a Summer Night" (1960), each novel probes the depths and complexities of human emotion, of love and of despair. Exceptional for their range in mood and situation, these four novels are unparalleled exhibitions of a poetic beauty that is uniquely Duras."--Publisher description.

The North China Lover

The North China Lover PDF Author: Marguerite Duras
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 250

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Novel retelling the dramatic experiences of the author's adolescence - as previously described in the 1984 Prix Goncourt winning T̀he Lover'.

Writing

Writing PDF Author: Marguerite Duras
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 9780816677535
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 114

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Celebrated writer Marguerite Duras on the artistic process