L'Amant de la Chine du Nord
ISBN:
9782070723799 (2070723798)
Publish date: August 8th 1991
Publisher: Gallimard
Pages no: 236
Edition language: French
If you haven't read the first book and seen the movie it's probably rubbish with pretty words. But I've read the original, I've seen the movie, I've read some about Duras' life so this remixing of the most important part of her life in reaction to the movie (which she did not approve of) in a time w...
Rereading this 20 years later I'm still astounded by the powerful wave of 'folie' that inhabits the narrative. More so now then the first time I read it. Yes, it's the memories put into a somewhat fictional narrative of a young Marguerite 'selling' herself to this rich older Chinese man in the 1930'...
I'm just snapping these up as I find them used.
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