A man hires a woman to spend several weeks with him by the sea. The
woman is no one in particular, a "she," a warm, moist body with a
beating heart-the enigma of Other. Skilled in the mechanics of sex,
he desires through her to penetrate a different mystery: he wants
to learn love. It isn't a matter of will, she tells him. Still, he
wants to learn to try . . .This beautifully wrought erotic novel is
an extended haiku on the meaning of love, "perhaps a sudden lapse
in the logic of the universe," and of its absence, "the malady of
death." "The whole tragedy of the inability to love is in this
work, thanks to Duras' unparalleled art of reinventing the most
familiar words, of weighing their meaning." - Le Monde;
"Deceptively simple and Racinian in its purity, condensed to the
essential." - Translation Review.
General
| Imprint: |
Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press
|
| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Release date: |
1994 |
| First published: |
1994 |
| Authors: |
Marguerite Duras
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| Dimensions: |
208 x 135 x 6mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Paperback
|
| Pages: |
59 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-8021-3036-5 |
| Categories: |
Books >
Fiction >
Genre fiction >
Erotic fiction
Promotions
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| LSN: |
0-8021-3036-4 |
| Barcode: |
9780802130365 |
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