North China lover - Marguerite Duras • BookLikes (ISBN:0006547125)

North China lover

by: Marguerite Duras (author)

ISBN: 9780006547129 (0006547125)

Publish date: December 5th 1994

Publisher: Flamingo

Pages no: 231

Edition language: English

Category:

Classics, Novels, Literature, European Literature, Cultural, Romance, 20th Century, Asia, France, French Literature

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13 years ago

http://writerlibrarian.booklikes.com What I'm reading 4.0 L'Amant de la Chine Du Nord (French Edition)

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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...

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http://writerlibrarian.booklikes.com What I'm reading 3.0 L'Amant de la Chine du Nord

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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'...

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