Author: Marguerite Duras Year: 1991 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Romance, Romance Culture: France
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Far more daring and truthful than any of her other novels, is a fascinating retelling of the dramatic experiences of Duras's adolescence that shaped her most famous work. Initially conceived as notes toward a screenplay for , this later novel, written toward the end of her life, emphasizes the tougher aspects of her youth in Indochina and possesses the intimate feel of a documentary. Both shocking and enthralling, the story Duras tells is "so powerfully imagined (or remembered) that it . . . lingers like a strong perfume" ( ). Hailed by the French critics as a return to "the Duras of the great books and the great days," it is a mature and complex rendering of a formative period in the author's life.
This book is part of the "The Lover" series. Here are some other books from this series:
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