Marguerite Duras

Älskaren är skriven av Marguerite Duras och utkom 1984. Det är en självbiografisk roman som utspelas i Indokina, då en fransk koloni. Den kvinnliga huvudpersonen, som är fransyska, är femton år gammal då hon inleder en sexuell förbindelse med en kinesisk affärsman. Omgivningen ser inte deras affär med blida ögon. …

Far more daring and truthful than any of her other novels, The North China Lover is a fascinating retelling of the dramatic experiences of Duras’s adolescence that shaped her most famous work. Initially conceived as notes toward a screenplay for The Lover, this later novel, written toward the end of her life, …

Published for the first time in english, the World War II notebooks of one of the twentieth century's most renowned literary figures.For decades it has been known that Marguerite Duras had kept four notebooks in a blue closet in her country home in France. But until now no one understood the importance of the material …

Blue Eyes, Black Hair is a 1986 novel by the French writer Marguerite Duras. It tells the story of a couple who meet by chance in a small vacation town. The man is homosexual and has recently fallen in love with a man with blue eyes and black hair. After meeting the woman at a cafe, he pays the woman to come to his …