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The Lover by Marguerite Duras

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Author Biography

Name: Marguerite Duras
Variant Name: Marguerite Donnadieu
Birth Date: April 4, 1914
Death Date: March 3, 1996
Nationality: French
Gender: Female

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Biography of Marguerite Duras
7308 words, approx. 24.4 pages
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 immediately into English as The Lover). Although Duras...


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The Lover Information
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L'Amant (English: The Lover) is an autobiographical novel by Marguerite Duras, published in 1984 by Les Éditions de Minuit. It has been translated to 43 languages. It was awarded the 1984 Prix...


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British jurors trace Diana's steps
10/9/2007: 679 words, approx. 2 pages
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, embracing in a corridor asawaited their final journey.Eleven British jurors on Tuesday they retraced...
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China enters epic love story 'The Knot' in Oscar best foreign movie race
10/9/2007: 315 words, approx. 1 pages
China has selected "The Knot," a tearjerker about lovers separated by the political divisions between mainland China and Taiwan, as its entry into the Oscar best foreign movie race, an official said Tuesday.Luan Guozhi, director of international cooperation at China's Film Bureau, told The Associated...
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Alan Cumming to Play Dianne Wiest's Lover in Seagull
1/3/2008: 270 words, approx. 1 pages
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). It is to be directed by Viacheslav Dolgachev, artistic director of the Moscow New...
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Man sentenced to life in wife's death
3/7/2007: 389 words, approx. 1 pages
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, the sister of victim Tami Reay, 41, said in court Tuesday that Reay...
 


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Critical Essay by Suzanne Chester
10,471 words, approx. 35 pages
In the following essay, Chester examines colonialism and autobiographical representation in The Lover and The Sea Wall.
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Critical Essay by Graham Dunstan Martin
7,742 words, approx. 26 pages
In the following essay, Martin examines power in The Lover as it is used by and against the narrator.
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Critical Essay by Peter Brooks
5,934 words, approx. 20 pages
In the following essay, Brooks analyzes what he considers Duras's subversive techniques of dealing with the problem of the visual in The Lover.
 


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