“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...
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...
68. THE LOVER, BY MARGUERITE DURASI can’t remember who recommended this to me. Yes, I know, very rude of me; I should have kept a list, or something. If you’re reading this, I’m very sorry. Feel free to let me know who you are so I can apologize properly. The recommendation was very much appreciated...
There is something dark, distressing and desperate, yet melancholic in this novella. Emotions simmering beneath the lines, beautiful, in your face, matter of fact and spare prose as a seventy yr. old woman looks back on her first love affair when she is fifteen and he is much older. This takes place...
Something dark and deeply unsettling simmers angrily beneath the surface of this narrative. This 'something' becomes so potent a force, arousing fear and feelings of disgust in the reader, that one is often tempted to abandon reading and save oneself from all the unpleasantness Duras shoves right in...
I personally found the writing (or at least in the Spanish version that I have) to be hideous.Nevertheless, I liked the story so much I read it to the end. I simply adore this story.
Dearest Marguerite,I know it is awfully late now, to write to you. I could not resist though. I thought about you the other day; as her eyes scanned the Chinese gentleman for the first time, on the ferry to Mekong. The demure young features veiled under a mannish hat, gave away precocious impression...
I personally found the writing (or at least in the Spanish version that I have) to be hideous.Nevertheless, I liked the story so much I read it to the end. I simply adore this story.
over-wrought in places, and perhaps not the "life-changing" book some of its intense fans make it out to be, Marguerite Duras' memoirish roman a clef or whatever it is of her childhood in indochina with her older chinese lover contains a fuzzy-focus romanticism about asia, but nevertheless suceeds i...
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