The lover ; Wartime notebooks ; Practicalities / Marguerite Duras ; with an introduction by Rachel Kushner.
Duras, Marguerite, author.; Kushner, Rachel, author of introduction.; Duras, Marguerite. Amant. English.; Duras, Marguerite. Cahiers de la guerre et autres textes. English.; Duras, Marguerite. Vie matérielle. English.
2018
PQ2607.U8245 A6 2018 (Mapit)
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Title The lover ; Wartime notebooks ; Practicalities / Marguerite Duras ; with an introduction by Rachel Kushner.
Author Duras, Marguerite, author.
Uniform Title Works. Selections. English
ISBN 9781101907931 (hardcover)
1101907932 (hardcover)
9781841593807
184159380X
Published New York : Everyman's Library, 2018.
Language English
Description xxxvi, 466 pages ; 21 cm.
Call Number PQ2607.U8245 A6 2018
Dewey Decimal Classification 848/.91209
Summary Marguerite Duras was one of the leading intellectuals and novelist of post-war France, but her wartime writings were not published in full until after her death. The Wartime Notebooks trace Duras's formative experiences - including her difficult childhood in Indochina and her harrowing wait for her husband's return from Nazi internment - revealing the personal history behind her bestselling novels. The Lover is the best known of these; set in pre-war Indochina, its haunting tale of a tumultuous affair between an adolescent French girl and her wealthy Chinese lover is based on her own life. In spare and luminous prose, Duras evokes life on the margins in the waning days of France's colonial empire, and the passionate relationship between two unforgettable outcasts. Practicalities is a collection of small and intensely personal pieces Duras dictated near the end of her life. These deceptively simple meditations on motherhood, domesticity, sex, love, alcohol, writing, and more are witty, earthy, outspoken and surprisingly fresh and relevant to the same issues today.
Note Translated from the French.
"This is a Borzoi book."
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references.
Added Author Kushner, Rachel, author of introduction.
Duras, Marguerite. Amant. English.
Duras, Marguerite. Cahiers de la guerre et autres textes. English.
Duras, Marguerite. Vie matérielle. English.
Series Everyman's library ; 380.
Includes Duras, Marguerite. Amant. English.
Duras, Marguerite. Cahiers de la guerre et autres textes. English.
Duras, Marguerite. Vie matérielle. English.
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