L'Amant (French Edition)
by Marguerite Duras
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Author: Marguerite DurasEdition: Paperback
Audio: French (Unknown); French (Original Language); French (Published)
Published: 1984-05-01
ISBN: 2707306959
Number of pages: 142
Publisher: Les Editions de Minuit
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Book Review: Incroyable
Summary: 5 Stars
With such intimate tone Marguerite Duras involves us in the story of her childhood. She, daughter of a poor French family in the colonies (South East Asia) has her first romantic experience with a rich Chinese man.
Class, gender, ethnicity, uprootedness, relationships, all of that mingles to create a narrative that flows full of power and feeling. Both the nameless narratrice and her lover are outsiders in a country that is not really theirs, both share a moment and both have complex lives.
I think anyone who has grown in a home full of conflicts and privations can easily identify with the feelings so passionately set to paper by the author. And anyone else can, too: such is the magic of her prose.
The Éditions de Minuit series is rather minimalistic: no prologue, no notes. None are needed.
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