Douleur, La by Marguerite Duras

Douleur, La by Marguerite Duras

From the bestselling author of The Lover, Marguerite Duras's haunting memoir of suffering and survival in a time when Europe was torn asunder

Written in 1944 and first published in 1985, Duras's riveting account of life in Paris during the Nazi occupation and the first months of liberation depicts the harrowing realities of World War I-era France with a rich conviction enhanced by a] spare, almost arid, technique (Julian Barnes, The Washington Post Book World ). Duras, by then married and part of a French resistance network headed by Fran ois Mitterand, tells of nursing her starving husband back to health after his return from Bergen-Belsen, interrogating a suspected collaborator, and playing a game of cat and mouse with a Gestapo officer who was attracted to her. The result is more than one woman's diary . . . it is] a haunting portrait of a time and a place and also a state of mind (The New York Times).

Duras, Marguerite: - Marguerite Duras was one of France's most important and prolific writers. Born Marguerite Donnadieu in 1914 in what was then French Indochina, she went to Paris in 1931 to study at the Sorbonne. During WWII she was active in the Resistance, and in 1945 she joined the Communist Party. Duras wrote many novels, plays, films, and essays during her lifetime. She is perhaps best known for her internationally bestselling novel The Lover, which won the Prix Goncourt in 1984. She died in Paris in 1996.

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ISBN 13	9780006542254
ISBN 10	0006542255
Titre	Douleur, La
Auteur	Marguerite Duras
Série	Flamingo S
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Type de reliure	Paperback
Éditeur	HarperCollins Publishers
Année de publication	1987-08-13
Nombre de pages	192
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