SOURCE: “The Boy Next Door,” in The Times Literary Supplement, July 21, 1966, p. 640.
In the following review of Moderato Cantabile, the critic praises Duras's “controlled and hard-edged account” of her heroine's failures, but maintains that readers may feel unsatisfied with such a short book.
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