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Moderato Cantabile Study Guide

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by Marguerite Duras
About 57 pages (17,026 words)
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Who is the narrator? Is the narrator reliable?

Anne imagines a murder spurred by uncontrollable passion, even though there is only scant narrative evidence for murder. Did the man murder the woman? If so, why was there no gunshot?

Chauvin seems to know many things about Anne, while Anne seems largely ignorant of Chauvin. Do the two characters have a previous history that is not disclosed?

Why does Anne find Chauvin so compelling? Why does Chauvin find Anne so desirable?

Anne tells Chauvin that she sometimes looks out a window in her house and watches working men walk and bicycle pass her house. The men are walking from the industrial section of town out to the dunes and the beach beyond her house in the affluent section of the town. In what other ways does Anne play the part of.....

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