This entry was posted in 20th Century French Prose, French Literature and tagged Marguerite Duras by Anthony. I acquired that drinker’s face before I drank. This paper analyses Durass skillful use of the language and imagery of. Now I see that when I was very young, eighteen, fifteen, I already had a face that foretold the one I acquired through drink in middle age. The four works of Marguerite Durass cycle du Barrage (Un Barrage contre le. The opening paragraph ends with a comment from an acquaintance, “Rather than your face as a young woman, I prefer your face as it is now. I only know it isn’t where women think.ĭuras’s stripped-down, forthright prose is perfect for these compact stories, the brutality revealed in layers. I know it’s not clothes that make women beautiful or otherwise, nor beauty care, nor expensive creams, nor the distinction or costliness of their finery. Living in Vietnam, our fifteen and a half-year old narrator, wearing a threadbare silk dress, gold lamé shoes and a brownish-pink fedora, attracts the attention of a wealthy Chinese businessman. Best known for The Lover (a hybrid work that is best described as fictionalised autobiography, which won the 1984 Prix Goncourt), her oeuvre is distinctive, addressing themes of desire, loss, and death, in a style that can be repetitive, sparse, but striking all the same. I think I wrote about our love for our mother, but I don’t know if I wrote about how we hated her too, or about our love for one another, and our terrible hatred too, in that common family history of ruin and death which was ours whatever happened, in love or in hate, and which I still can’t understand however hard I try, which is still beyond my reach, hidden in the very depths of my flesh, blind as a newborn child. In the books I’ve written about my childhood I can’t remember, suddenly, what I left out, what I said. Short enough for a single sitting and exotic enough to take me away from ‘flu-riddled England, a perfect afternoon’s reading.ĭuras, a favourite of mine from a lifetime ago, often writes autobiographically. Discuss the extended metaphor of water as love. She mentioned that Betty Fernandez was a collaborator, a term that was used for Nazi counterparts, and that she. This Study Guide consists of approximately 46 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of The Lover. In it, a man sees another man, briefly, through a window, and feels an attraction as strong as love. It might be of more interest to devotees of Duras greater body of work than to the casual reader. It seems more a continuation of Duras literary themes rather than a novel that stands by itself. The style of writing, the setting, crucial moments, and important images are a few of the aspects that set this book apart from most others. The book is not flowing or visual or erotic in the manner of The Lover.
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Befogged with influenza, shivering slightly despite a blazing fire, reading The Lover, by Marguerite Duras, seemed fitting. Duras has suddenly, within these last few pages, delved into her political background, a subject that was previously unexplored in The Lover, but was evidently an essential part of her life (from the introductory interview we read). In Marguerite Duras' novel, The Lover, there are many aspects or styles that this book differs from the other two books we have read thus far.