Marguerite Duras
Author
Series
Everyman's library volume no. 380
Publisher
Everyman's Library
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Marguerite Duras was one of the leading intellectuals and novelist of post-war France, but her wartime writings were not published in full until after her death. The Wartime Notebooks trace Duras's formative experiences - including her difficult childhood in Indochina and her harrowing wait for her husband's return from Nazi internment - revealing the personal history behind her bestselling novels. The Lover is the best known of these; set in pre-war...
4) The Lover
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
A poor French teenager embarks on a love affair with a wealthy Chinese man in 1929 French colonial Vietnam, defying the boundaries of age, race and class.
Series
Criterion collection volume 196
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
Français
Description
Set in 1959, a French actress and a Japanese architect engage in a brief, intense affair in postwar Hiroshima, their consuming mutual fascination impelling them to exorcise their own scarred memories of love and suffering.