A film adaptation of The Lover came out in 1992. She does this ostensibly to help her poor family financially, but feelings develop on both sides. The Lover is the semi-autographical story of a teenage girl who becomes romantically involved with a Chinese businessman in colonial Vietnam. If you enjoy DurasвЂ™s nonfiction, there is a new collection called Me & Other Writingthat was just published and is also very interesting. She writes about nursing her husband back to health after his return from Bergen-Belsen, attracting the romantic attention of a Gestapo officer, and interrogating a suspected Nazi collaborator. She claimed not to have remembered keeping a diary. The WarДurasвЂ™s memoir of what happened to her during World War II. She marries, seems to move on and then discovers a passion that can only be accessed through voyeurism. When Lol SteinвЂ™s fiancГ© publicly leaves her to be with an older woman, she has a breakdown. The film takes place over 36 hours of conversation between a French actress and a Japanese architect about the bombing of Hiroshima. Duras was nominated for an Oscar for the screenplay. There is passion here, but very little kindness.ДЄt this point, you can move on to the next books or consider reading orВ watching Hiroshima, Mon Amour. I read many of these one after another in the past month and, truthfully, itвЂ™s a lot emotionally. Here is a suggested journey through some of her better-known work. Duras struggled with alcoholism for most of her life. Born in colonial Vietnam to parents who moved there to teach but quickly became destitute, the character of the scrappy young girl who must survive on her own is prevalent in her books. Marguerite Duras, the Elena Ferrante of French literature, rose to global stardom with her erotic masterpiece The Lover (L'Amant), 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. вЂњI write about love, yes, but not about tenderness,вЂќ she told the New York Times in 1990. I find a lot of the same things in Duras that I admire in American writers like Joan Didion. The novels are short and the prose is spare and there is a lot of repetition. If you happen to be learning French, her novels are a great starting point for your first book-length read. She is known for her command of dialog and the silence around what is not said. Marguerite Duras was a French novelist, playwright, and screenwriter and was associated with the nouveau roman movement.

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