SOURCE: “Family Reflections and the Absence of the Father in Duras's ‘L'Amant,’” in Essays in French Literature, No. 26, November, 1989, pp. 98-109.
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.”
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