Later, she wrote The North China Lover to reclaim her story and probably correct the lapses of her previous novel.Īfter all, in spite of its commercial and critical success, Duras did not care for The Lover, saying: “It’s an airport novel. The Lover Series by Marguerite Duras The Lover Series 2 primary works 2 total works Book 1 The Lover by Marguerite Duras 3. Duras was initially recruited for the project, but left due to creative differences with the director. Written when Duras was turning 70, The Lover is one of those great literary acts of looking back. In the 90s, Jean-Jacques Annaud sought to adapt The Lover to film. Duras wrote the screenplay, which received a nomination for an Academy Award. The 1959 film Hiroshima, Mon Amour, follows a Frenchwoman’s sensual encounters with a Japanese architect in the aftermath of World War II. But the one who got away provided ample inspiration throughout the years. If you’re a fan of 20th-century, Vietnam-born French writer Marguerite Duras (and why wouldn’t you be) you’ll want to visit Sa Dec where she lived and wrote The Lover.Lover Huynh Thuy Le’s. So the camera flashes (where indicated) and the following set details are vital and must be adhered to. It was to accompany an album of photographs (Marguerite Duras, interview in Le Nouvel Observateur, 1984). Set in the prewar Indochina of Marguerite Durass childhood, this is the haunting tale of a tumultuous affair between an adolescent French. The text of The Lover was originally called The Ultimate Image, or The Full Picture (L’Image absolue). Very good clean firm interior, no marks or inscriptions, dulled to top page block, very good clean firm boards d/jacket has light shelfwear including dulled to edges, light tone to spine area but no large tears/loss, covered with a new removable sleeve-protector, price-clipped neatly.

To this day, it is unknown what’s true, what’s not. An international best-seller with more than one million copies in print and a winner of Frances Prix Goncourt, The Lover has been acclaimed by critics all over the world since its first publication in 1984.

Marguerite Duras wrote The Lover when she was seventy years old, traveling back to her childhood in French-colonized Indochina, now Vietnam.įact blurs with myth in Duras’ nonlinear, experimental prose.