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Loving relationships and the problems of love are the themes of Marguerite Duras' latest novel. Duras is one of the leading literary figures of France, whose works, including such titles as "The Lover", "La Douleur", "Outside" and "Blue Eyes Black Hair", have been translated into 25 languages.
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Text: English (translation)
Original Language: French
From Publishers Weekly
This luminous tale of two couples, told in the spare haunted prose of the acclaimed Duras ( Hiroshima mon amour ; The Lover ) constitutes a penetrating meditation on love, art and the ruin wrought by time. A woman and man sit together in a quayside cafe near Le Havre, observing boats, people in the public square and the play of sunlight. The woman, a writer, muses aloud to her companion about their love, whose nuances inform the book she is writing. Gradually, their relationship becomes the framework for the story of an aging English pair seated nearby, a Captain and his ill, beautiful wife. In a dream-like manner, the English couple's past expands to fill the novel's canvas. As a girl on the Isle of Wright, the wife, Emily L., lived under her parents' rigid rule. The Captain, then a boat boy, loved her but, horribly jealous of the poetry she wrote, destroyed an unfinished lyric, preventing her from further work. The strange engrossing symbiosis of writer and beloved is delineated with passion and clarity in a volume that confirms Duras's reputation as a master.
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- PublisherFlamingo
- Publication date1990
- ISBN 10 0006544231
- ISBN 13 9780006544234
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages128
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