Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Kushner, Rachel

Description

1. xxxvi, 466 pages; 21 cm

Summary

1. 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 Indochina, its haunting tale of a tumultuous affair between an adolescent French girl and her wealthy Chinese lover is based on her own life. In spare and luminous prose, Duras evokes life on the margins in the waning days of France's colonial empire, and the passionate relationship between two unforgettable outcasts. Practicalities is a collection of small and intensely personal pieces Duras dictated near the end of her life. These deceptively simple meditations on motherhood, domesticity, sex, love, alcohol, writing, and more are witty, earthy, outspoken and surprisingly fresh and relevant to the same issues today.

Series statement

1. Everyman's Library ; 380

Uniform title

1. Works. Selections. English
2. Everyman's library ; 380.

Alternative title

1. Works.

Subject

1. Duras, Marguerite
2. Biography
3. Biographical fiction
4. Man-woman relationships
5. Women authors, French

Genre/Form

1. Romance fiction.
2. Diaries.
3. Interviews.
4. Biographical fiction.
5. Biography.

Contents

1. The lover -- Wartime notebooks -- Practicalities

Call number

1. JFD 18-1296

Note

1. Translated from the French.
2. "This is a Borzoi book."

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references.

Author

1. Duras, Marguerite, author.

Title

1. The lover ; Wartime notebooks ; Practicalities / Marguerite Duras ; with an introduction by Rachel Kushner.

Publisher

1. New York : Everyman's Library, 2018.

Copyright date

1. ©2018

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Series

1. Everyman's Library ; 380
2. Everyman's library ; 380.

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references.

Added author

1. Kushner, Rachel, writer of introduction.
2. Duras, Marguerite. Amant. English.
3. Duras, Marguerite. Cahiers de la guerre et autres textes. English.
4. Duras, Marguerite. Vie matérielle. English.

LCCN

1. 2017028929

ISBN

1. 9781101907931 hardcover ; alkaline paper
2. 1101907932 hardcover ; alkaline paper
3. 9781841593807
4. 184159380X

Research call number

1. JFD 18-1296