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The lover ; Wartime notebooks ; Practicalities / Marguerite Duras with an introduction by Rachel Kushner.

The lover ; Wartime notebooks ; Practicalities / Marguerite Duras with an introduction by Rachel Kushner.
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Reserve Title Catalogue Record 738740
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ISBN 9781841593807 (paperback)
9781101907931 (hardback)
Classification F DURA
Personal Name Duras, Marguerite
Title The lover ; Wartime notebooks ; Practicalities / Marguerite Duras with an introduction by Rachel Kushner.
Other title Wartime notebooks.
Practicalities.
Production & Copyright Details New York : Everyman's Library, 2018
©2017
Physical Description xxxvi, 466 pages ; 21 cm.
Content type text
Series Everyman's library
Note Translated from the French.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Summary Note Marguerite Duras was one of the leading intellectuals and novelist of post-war France, but her wartime writings were not published in full until after her death. The Wartime Notebooks trace Duras's formative experiences - including her difficult childhood in Indochina and her harrowing wait for her husband's return from Nazi internment - revealing the personal history behind her bestselling novels. The Lover is the best known of these; set in pre-war Indochina, its haunting tale of a tumultuous affair between an adolescent French girl and her wealthy Chinese lover is based on her own life. In spare and luminous prose, Duras evokes life on the margins in the waning days of France's colonial empire, and the passionate relationship between two unforgettable outcasts. Practicalities is a collection of small and intensely personal pieces Duras dictated near the end of her life. These deceptively simple meditations on motherhood, domesticity, sex, love, alcohol, writing, and more are witty, earthy, outspoken and surprisingly fresh and relevant to the same issues today.
Subject-Personal Name Duras, Marguerite
Duras, Marguerite -- Childhood and youth
Subject - Topical Term Women authors, French -- 20th century -- Biography
Authors, French -- 20th century -- Biography
Man-woman relationships -- France
Added Entry - Personal Name Kushner, Rachel writer of introduction.
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