The War by Marguerite Duras
This is Duras's harrowing memoir of war and revenge, reissued for the 50th anniversary of the liberation of Paris.
“An astonishing meditation on the horrors of the war and on the obsessive power of personal fidelity in love”
—New York Times Book Review
“No recent memoir has evoked the 1940s in France so eloquently or paid such close attention to suffering and emotional numbness. The diarist spares no one, neither the victims, the victors, the reader, nor herself.”
—Time
“Marguerite Duras's writing reminds one of the late Red Smith's simple advice on how to write: just sit at your typewriter, open a vein, and let it out, drop by drop. . . . Duras writes in an unmannered prose, so spare its very stylelessness is itself a style, using cinematic, fragmented technique.”
—Virginia Quarterly Review
“This book is at once elegant and brutal in its honesty: in Duras's world we are all outcasts, and the word 'liberation' is never free of irony. A powerful, moving work.”
—Kirkus Reviews
—New York Times Book Review
“No recent memoir has evoked the 1940s in France so eloquently or paid such close attention to suffering and emotional numbness. The diarist spares no one, neither the victims, the victors, the reader, nor herself.”
—Time
“Marguerite Duras's writing reminds one of the late Red Smith's simple advice on how to write: just sit at your typewriter, open a vein, and let it out, drop by drop. . . . Duras writes in an unmannered prose, so spare its very stylelessness is itself a style, using cinematic, fragmented technique.”
—Virginia Quarterly Review
“This book is at once elegant and brutal in its honesty: in Duras's world we are all outcasts, and the word 'liberation' is never free of irony. A powerful, moving work.”
—Kirkus Reviews
Marguerite Duras (1914–1996) was one of France's most important literary figures. She is the author of such acclaimed novels as The Lover, The Ravishing of Lol Stein, and The Sailor from Gibraltar and wrote the screenplay for Hiroshima Mon Amour. The New Press has published translations of her books The North China Lover, The War, and Wartime Writings.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781565842212 |
| ISBN 10 | 1565842219 |
| Title | The War |
| Author | Marguerite Duras |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | The New Press |
| Year published | 1994-09-15 |
| Number of pages | 192 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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