A controversial figure of the postwar French literary and cultural
scene, Marguerite Duras has exerted a powerful hold on readers
around the world. This volume of interviews--hailed on its French
publication as Duras's "secret confession"--offers readers a rich
vein of new insight into her work, opinions, life, and
relationships. The interviews that make up the book were conducted
in 1987, when Italian journalist Leopoldina Pallotta della Torre
met the seventy-three-year-old Duras at her Paris flat and
convinced her to sit for a series of conversations. The resulting
book was published in Italian in 1989, but it somehow failed to
attract a French publisher, and it was quickly forgotten. Nearly a
quarter of a century later, however, the book was rediscovered and
translated into French, and, it has now become a sensation. In its
revealing pages, Duras speaks with extraordinary freedom about her
life as a writer, her relationship to cinema, her friendship with
Mitterand, her love of Chekhov and football, and, perhaps most
significantly, her childhood in pre-war Vietnam, the experiences
that propelled her most famous novel, The Lover. A true literary
event, finally available in English, The Suspended Passion is a
remarkable document of an extraordinary literary life.
General
Imprint: |
Seagull Books London Ltd
|
Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Release date: |
March 2020 |
Authors: |
Marguerite Duras
|
Translators: |
Chris Turner
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Dimensions: |
205 x 128 x 13mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback - Trade
|
Pages: |
172 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-85742-756-4 |
Categories: |
Books
|
LSN: |
0-85742-756-3 |
Barcode: |
9780857427564 |
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