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 po...
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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.
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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...
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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 li...
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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 an...
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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,” ass...
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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, ...
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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...
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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 relations...
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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 t...
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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,...
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Teaching The Lover
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The scenes were preserved in the grainy footage of security cameras: Princess Diana and her lover emerging from the whirl of a hotel's revolving doors, exchanging smiles in a cramped elevator, embr...
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Minsk (dpa) - Belarusian police detained and fined a group of 10
US religious workers for teaching English in the former Soviet
republic, the Belapan news agency reported on...
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Question 1 of 10:
Sandra
was exposed to the world of showbusiness from the outset, as her mother was an acclaimed...?Stage actressJazz singer
Opera singer
Theatrical directorQuestion 2 of 10:How ...
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10: 1984
The book that gave us Big Brother also presented Winston and Julia, the lovers who are imprisoned and forced to betray each other before being reduced to emotionless drones. That's love fo...
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Tony Award winner Alan Cumming will play Trigorin, the lover to Dianne Wiest's magnetic actress, Arkadina, in Anton Chekhov's 1896 play, The Seagull, at Classic Stage Company (136 East 13th Street)...
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A man who tried to pin his wife's brutal slaying on their 12-year-old daughter was sentenced Tuesday to life in prison for first-degree murder.Brad Reay, 47, is not eligible for parole.Holly Givens...
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Images of fire, floods and even naked bodies flash on a giant video screen above the stage as the concert hall fills with the sounds of Richard Wagner's doomed lovers playing out their tragic story...
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Stromboli Island, Italy (dpa) - A passionate love affair erupted
on Stromboli Island in 1949. While shooting the film Stromboli --
terra di dio (the English version was titl...
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Stuttgart (dpa) - The times when lower quality wines came with a
screw-cap instead of a cork are a thing of the past. Nowadays, even
the most noble of wines are sealed with ...
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Marguerite Duras
Obituary by Alan Riding
British jurors trace Diana's steps
