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The Lover by Marguerite Duras.
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One of the most important literary figures in France, Marguerite Duras won international acclaim after she was awarded the 1984 Prix Goncourt for her autobiographical novel L'Amant (translated almost ...
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In the following excerpt, Riding remarks on Duras's life and literature.
Marguerite Duras, author of the best-selling novel The Lover and one of the most widely read French writers of the postw...
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In the following review of the English translation of L'amant and Whole Days in the Trees, Gunn finds similarities between the two books despite the thirty years between their publications.
Mar...
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In the following review of The Lover, Annan examines Duras's motivations in the writing of the novella, as well as the book's phenomenal popular success.
Marguerite Duras is very much a ...
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In the following essay, originally published in the Boston Phoenix in 1985, Birkerts discusses the minimalistic prose of The Lover.
Minimalism is, for the practitioner, one of the more seductive liter...
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In the following review, Otten deems The Lover a “parable of French colonialism.”
Winner of the prestigious Prix Goncourt in 1984, The Lover was acclaimed as a major literary event and h...
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In the following essay, Hellerstein suggests that the father's death in The Lover “deprives all the members of the family of a source of emotional, economic, and sexual definition.ȁ...
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In the following essay, Hirsch provides a psychoanalytic reading of the relationship between the narrator and her mother in The Lover.
“The story of my life doesn't exist,” assert...
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In the following essay, Cohen explores Duras's “inter-genre” use of visual imagery in The Lover.
Le seul sujet du livre [L'Amant] c'est l'écriture, L&#...
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In the following essay, Morgan discusses the autobiographical significance of the silences in The Lover.
To write is not to comment on what one already knows but to look for what one doesn't kn...
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In the following essay, Chester examines colonialism and autobiographical representation in The Lover and The Sea Wall.
Until now, the main body of critical work on Duras has explored the relationship...
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In the following essay, Brooks analyzes what he considers Duras's subversive techniques of dealing with the problem of the visual in The Lover.
The body quickened through sexuality remains the ...
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In the following essay, Martin examines power in The Lover as it is used by and against the narrator.
The nature of power has not been discussed in relation to L'Amant.1 Power evokes desire, ob...
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Teaching The Lover
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Marguerite Duras
Obituary by Alan Riding
