SOURCE: “Marguerite Duras,” in An Artificial Wilderness: Essays on 20th-Century Literature, William Morrow and Company, Inc., 1987, pp. 163-70.
In the following essay, originally published in the Boston Phoenix in 1985, Birkerts discusses the minimalistic prose of The Lover.
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