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Marguerite Duras
1) The lover
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English
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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...
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...
3) India song
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English
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Unseen voices narrate this story of the affair between the haunting Anne-Marie Stretter and the disgraced French vice-consul in Làhore. In the India of 1937, with the smell of laurels and leprosy permeating the air, the characters perform a dance of doomed love to the strains of a dying colonialism. Originally commissioned as a play for Britain's National Theatre, India Song was made into a film that premiered at the 1975 Cannes Film Festival. American...
4) Nada más
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Español
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Una mujer dicta unas pocas frases al día a lo largo de su último año de vida. Están dirigidas a su amante, que no sólo las mecanografía, sino que también es el objeto de las pasiones tumultuosas que se desprenden de ellas. Esa mujer es Marguerite Duras, una de las escritoras francesas más importantes de todos los tiempos, quien fallece sólo tres días después de la última entrada de este libro.
Si todas sus historias se desarrollan alrededor...
5) Four Novels: The Square, Moderato Cantabile, 10:30 on a Summer Night, The Afternoon of Mr. Andesmas
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English
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A collection of four short novels by the renowned, Prix Goncourt–winning author of The Lover.
Long acknowledged as one of the most important literary figures in France, Marguerite Duras has garnered worldwide praise for her work, from the acclaimed screenplay Hiroshima Mon Amour to the best-selling novel The Lover.
In these four short novels, Duras demonstrates her remarkable ability to create an emotional intensity and unity by focusing on...
6) O Amante
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Asa
Pub. Date
2012
Language
Portuguese
Description
Saigão, anos 30. Uma bela jovem francesa conhece o elegante filho de um negociante chinês. Deste encontro nasce uma paixão. Ela tem quinze anos e é pobre. Ele tem vinte e sete e é rico. Os amantes, isolados num mundo privado de erotismo e autodescoberta, desafiam as convenções da sociedade. Enquanto ela desperta para a possibilidade de traçar o seu próprio caminho no mundo, para o seu amante não há fuga possível. A separação é inevitável...
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English
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One of the most influential works in the history of cinema, Alain Renais's Hiroshima Mon Amour gathered international acclaim upon its release in 1959. Ostensibly the story of a love affair between a Japanese architect and a French actress visiting Japan to make a film on peace, Hiroshima Mon Amour is a stunning exploration of the influence of war on both Japanese and French culture and the conflict between love and inhumanity.
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Dorothy, a Publishing project
Pub. Date
[2019]
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English
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"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."--
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Distributed by W.W. Norton
Pub. Date
©1992
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English
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Hailed in France as "an incomparable pleasure", Marguerite Duras's newest novel is a fascinating retelling of the dramatic experiences of her adolescence that have shaped her work. Far more daring and truthful than any book she has written before, it emphasizes the tough realities of her youth in Indochina and reveals much that her earlier works concealed. An instant number-one bestseller in France, The North China Lover both shocks and entrances...
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English
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"Disaffected, bored with his career at the French Colonial Ministry (where he has copied out birth and death certificates for eight years), and disgusted by a mistress whose vapid optimism arouses his most violent misogyny, the narrator of The Sailor from Gibraltar finds himself at the point of complete breakdown while vacationing in Florence. After leaving his mistress and the Ministry behind forever, he joins the crew of the Gibraltar, a yacht captained...
17) The easy life
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Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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"The Easy Life is the story of Francine Veyrenattes, a twenty-five-year-old woman who already feels like life is passing her by. After witnessing a series of tragedies on her family farm, she alternates between intense grief and staggering boredom as she discovers a curious detachment in herself, an inability to navigate the world as others do. Hoping to be cleansed of whatever ails her, she travels to the coast to visit the sea. But there she finds...
