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The Easy Life (Paperback)
Marguerite Duras; Foreword by Kate Zambreno; Translated by Emma Ramadan, Olivia Baes
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'One of the 20th century's greatest thinkers and prose stylists'
New York Times 'A novel of the disquieting contours of family, and
of the mind, and of life unceasing even in the midst of death by
one of the most important, visionary writers of all time' Amina
Cain, author of Indelicacy WITH A FOREWORD BY KATE ZAMBRENO There's
nothing to do about boredom, I'm bored, but one day I won't be
bored anymore. Soon I'll know that it's not even worth the trouble.
We'll have the easy life. Twenty-five-year-old Francine
Veyrenattes, confined to the family farm, already feels that life
is passing her by. But after Francine lets slip a terrible secret,
culminating in the violent deaths of her brother and uncle, her
world is shattered. Fleeing the farm for the seaside, Francine
finds herself disintegrating. Lying in the sun with her toes in the
sand, she restlessly wishes for things to be somehow easier, to
have a life worth living. But then the calm and quiet is broken yet
again - by another tragedy and a senseless death, in which Francine
finds herself implicated. Cast out of paradise, and stranded
between her home and the rest of the world, she must confront her
rapidly dissolving sense of self if she is to find a way to
survive. 'It's a masterpiece, and a little known, if not unknown,
masterpiece ... Any serious reader of this author's work must begin
with this novel' YVES BERGER
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Writing (Paperback)
Marguerite Duras; Translated by Mark Polizzotti
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"Writing," one of Marguerite Duras's last works, is a meditation
on the process of writing and on her need for solitude in order to
do it. In the five short pieces collected in this volume, she
explores experiences that had an emotional impact on her and that
inspired her to write. These vary from the death of a pilot in
World War II, to the death of a fly, to an art exhibition. Two of
the pieces were made into documentary films, and one was originally
a short film. Both autobiographical and fictional, like much of her
work, "Writing" displays Duras's unique worldview and sensitive
insight in her simple and poetic prose.
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Panics (Paperback)
Barbara Molinard; Translated by Emma Ramadan; Preface by Marguerite Duras
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The Impudent Ones (Hardcover)
Marguerite Duras; Translated by Kelsey L Haskett; Preface by Jean Vallier
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Marguerite Duras, the Elena Ferrante of French literature, rose to
global stardom with her erotic masterpiece The Lover, which won the
prestigious Prix Goncourt, has over a million copies in print in
English, has been translated into forty-three languages, and was
adapted into a canonical film in 1992. While almost all of Duras's
novels have been translated into English, her debut The Impudent
Ones (Les Impudents) has been a glaring exception until now. Fans
of Duras will be thrilled to discover the germ of her bold, vital
prose and signature blend of memoir and fiction in this intense and
mournful story of the Taneran family, which introduces Duras's
classic themes of familial conflict, illicit romance, and scandal
in the sleepy suburbs and southwest provinces of postwar France.
With storytelling that evokes in equal parts beauty and brutality,
Duras depicts the scalding effect of seduction and disrepute on the
soul of a young French girl. Duras's great gift was her ability to
bring to vivid and passionate life characters with whom society may
not have sympathized, but with whom readers certainly do. Through
its striking prose and strong feminist themes, The Impudent Ones
will delight established Duras fans and a new generation of readers
alike.
A sensational international bestseller, and winner of Frances'
coveted Prix Goncourt, 'The Lover' is an unforgettable portrayal of
the incandescent relationship between two lovers, and of the hate
that slowly tears the girl's family apart. Saigon, 1930s: a poor
young French girl meets the elegant son of a wealthy Chinese
family. Soon they are lovers, locked into a private world of
passion and intensity that defies all the conventions of their
society. A sensational international bestseller, 'The Lover' is
disturbing, erotic, masterly and simply unforgettable.
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No More (Paperback)
Marguerite Duras; Translated by Richard Howard; Afterword by Christiane Blot Labarrere
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The War - A Memoir (Paperback)
Marguerite Duras; Translated by Barbara Bray
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From the bestselling author of The Lover, Marguerite Duras's
haunting memoir of suffering and survival in a time when Europe was
torn asunder Written in 1944 and first published in 1985, Duras's
riveting account of life in Paris during the Nazi occupation and
the first months of liberation depicts the harrowing realities of
World War II-era France "with a rich conviction enhanced by [a]
spare, almost arid, technique" (Julian Barnes, The Washington Post
Book World ). Duras, by then married and part of a French
resistance network headed by Francois Mitterand, tells of nursing
her starving husband back to health after his return from
Bergen-Belsen, interrogating a suspected collaborator, and playing
a game of cat and mouse with a Gestapo officer who was attracted to
her. The result is "more than one woman's diary . . . [it is] a
haunting portrait of a time and a place and also a state of mind"
(The New York Times).
An international bestseller with more than one million copies in
print and a winner of France's Prix Goncourt, The Lover" has been
acclaimed by critics all over the world since its first publication
in 1984. Set in the pre-war Indochina of Marguerite Duras'
childhood, this is the haunting tale of a tumultuous affair between
an adolescent French girl and her Chinese lover. In spare yet
luminous prose, Duras evokes life on the margins of Saigon in the
waning days of France's colonial empire, and its representation in
the passionate relationship between two unforgettable outcasts.
For fans of Duras’s enduring bestseller The Lover, an evocative
and intimate exploration of the drama and power of adolescence, in
a remarkable blend of fiction and memoir Far more daring and
truthful than any of her other novels, The North China Lover is a
fascinating retelling of the dramatic experiences of Duras's
adolescence that shaped her most famous work. Initially conceived
as notes toward a screenplay for The Lover, this later novel,
written toward the end of her life, emphasizes the tougher aspects
of her youth in Indochina and possesses the intimate feel of a
documentary. Both shocking and enthralling, the story Duras tells
is "so powerfully imagined (or remembered) that it . . . lingers
like a strong perfume" (Publishers Weekly). Hailed by the French
critics as a return to "the Duras of the great books and the great
days," it is a mature and complex rendering of a formative period
in the author's life.
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Me & Other Writing (Paperback)
Marguerite Duras; Translated by Olivia Baes, Emma Ramadan; Introduction by Dan Gunn
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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.
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.
In this classic novel by the best-selling author of The Lover,
erotic intrigue masks a chillingly deceptive form of madness.
Elisabeth Alione is convalescing in a hotel in rural France when
she meets two men and another woman. The sophisticated dalliance
among the four serves to obscure an underlying violence, which,
when the curtain of civilization is drawn aside, reveals in her
fellow guests a very contemporary, perhaps even new, form of
insanity. Like many of Duras's novels, Destroy, She Said owes much
to cinema, displaying a skillful interplay of dialogue and
description. There are recurring moods and motifs from the Duras
repertoire: eroticism, lassitude, stifled desire, a beautiful
woman, a mysterious forest, a desolate provincial hotel. Included
in this volume is an in-depth interview with Duras by Jacques
Rivette and Jean Narboni.
"It's the women who upset the applecart. Between themselves they
talk only about the practicalities of life", declares Duras in this
collection of her transcribed conversations with friend Jerome
Beaujour. Some of her free-ranging meditations are short and
deceptively simple, while many are autobiographical and reveal her
most intimate thoughts about motherhood, her struggle with alcohol,
her love for a young man, and more.
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.
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Moderato Cantabile (Paperback)
Marguerite Duras; Translated by Richard Seaver
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A distressed young man murders the woman he loves in a cafe,
watched by a large crowd. Fascinated by the crime she has
witnessed, Anne Desbaresdes returns several times to the scene,
forming a relationship with a man who also saw the murder, and
drinking through the afternoon with him as he patiently answers her
eager questions. Slowly, they find themselves being taken over by
forces which threaten their own stability. Moderato Cantabile is a
carefully woven tapestry of emotion, in which the characters' inner
lives are reflected by the story's spaces and landscapes.
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.
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The Easy Life (Paperback)
Marguerite Duras; Translated by Emma Ramadan, Olivia Baes; Foreword by Kate Zambreno
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The Darkroom (Paperback)
Marguerite Duras; Introduction by Jean-Luc Nancy; Translated by Alta Ifland
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