Marguerite Duras
Marguerite Donnadieu, known as Marguerite Duras, was a controversial French novelist, playwright, scriptwriter, essayist and experimental filmmaker.
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Marguerite Donnadieu, known as Marguerite Duras, was a controversial French novelist, playwright, scriptwriter, essayist and experimental filmmaker.
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Birth date: April 04, 1914
Died: March 03, 1996
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This one was one weird cookie. And for my first forage in Duras, not an auspicious one. The premise, such as there is one, is interesting (when we finally get to glimpse wtf, but hey, if you made it to page 3, you know the writing is... hard to get used to would be my kind assessment), and some of...
You ask how loving can happen-the emotion of loving. She answers: Perhaps a sudden lapse in the logic of universe. She says: Through a mistake for instance. She says: Never through an act of will. You ask: Could the emotion of loving come from other things too? You beg her to say. She says: It can c...
“People ought to be told of such things. Ought to be taught that immortality is mortal, that it can die, it’s happened before and it happens still.” (90%) The prose is so beautiful, so evocative, that I am immediately transported into the world of “The Lover”. I am glad I read the introduction, conf...
Very well crafted. Intense. Hateful.
This is a review of the English translation of a French novel. Sometimes, it can be good when school forces me to read a book. College and grad school have helped me discover many amazing stories that I never would have picked up on my own. Other times, (okay, most times) forced school reads are a...
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