SOURCE: “Saigon Mon Amour,” in The New York Review of Books, Vol. XXXII, No. 11, June 27, 1985, pp. 11-12.
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.
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