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The lover ; Wartime notebooks ; Practicalities / Marguerite Duras ; with an introduction by Rachel Kushner.
Van Pelt Library PQ2607.U8245 A6 2018
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Duras, Marguerite, author.
- Kushner, Rachel, author of introduction.
- Series:
- Everyman's library ; 380.
- Everyman's Library ; 380
- Standardized Title:
- Works. Selections. English
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Duras, Marguerite--Diaries--Wartime notebooks.
- Duras, Marguerite.
- Women authors, French.
- Teenage girls.
- Man-woman relationships.
- Indochina.
- Duras, Marguerite--Interviews--Practicalities.
- Man-woman relationships--Indochina--Fiction--The lover.
- The lover--Teenage girls--Indochina--Fiction.
- The lover--Indochina--Fiction.
- Wartime notebooks--Women authors, French--20th century--Diaries.
- Authors, French--20th century--Diaries--Wartime notebooks.
- Authors, French.
- Authors, French--20th century--Interviews--Practicalities.
- Biographical fiction.
- Duras Marguerite, 1914-1006.
- French fiction.
- Local Subjects:
- Duras Marguerite, 1914-1006.
- French fiction.
- Genre:
- Diaries.
- Interviews.
- Fiction.
- Romance fiction -- The lover
- Romance fiction.
- Diaries -- Wartime notebooks
- Interviews -- Practicalities
- Biographical fiction.
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xxxvi, 466 pages ; 21 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Everyman's Library, 2018.
- 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.
- Contents:
- The lover
- Wartime notebooks
- Practicalities
- Notes:
- Translated from the French.
- "This is a Borzoi book."
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Contains:
- Duras, Marguerite. Amant. English
- Duras, Marguerite. Cahiers de la guerre et autres textes. English
- Duras, Marguerite. Vie matérielle. English
- ISBN:
- 9781101907931
- 1101907932
- 9781841593807
- 184159380X
- OCLC:
- 999309067
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