The Lover by Marguerite Duras (Book Analysis) E-Book

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Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2016

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This engaging summary presents an analysis of The Lover by Marguerite Duras, an autobiographical novel which tells the story of a teenage girl who embarks on a forbidden relationship with a wealthy Chinese man twelve years her senior. They are eventually separated when the young girl is forced to go back to France, where she will once again encounter her lover many years later. The Lover was a commercial and critical success: the novel won France’s prestigious Prix Goncourt in 1984, and it has sold almost three million copies and been translated into more than 40 languages. Marguerite Duras was a French writer, playwright and filmmaker. She often moved away from the structure and style of traditional fiction in favour of a more abstract approach, making her one of the most influential and innovative authors of the 20th century. 

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Marguerite Duras

French writer, playwright and filmmaker

Born in Gia Dinh (Indonesia) in 1914Died in Paris in 1996Notable works:The Sea Wall (1950), novelThe Ravishing of Lol Stein (1964), novelThe Lover (1984), autobiographical novel

Marguerite Duras (1914-1996), née Marguerite Donnadieu, born in Cochinchina (a former region of French Indochina), was one of the most original and influential novelists of the 20th century. She advocated a pared-down writing style, used recurring characters and built the corpus of her works around the fundamental themes of memory and forgetting, as well as rewriting and destruction. Her most famous and widely studied novels are The Sea Wall (1950), Moderato Cantabile (1958) and The Lover (winner of France’s prestigious Prix Goncourt in 1984). She also contributed to the theatre (La Musica, Eden Cinema) and the cinema, where she employed a radical and highly personal style (India Song; Destroy, She Said; The Lorry).

The Lover

An introduction to love

Genre: novelReference edition: Duras, M. (1985) The Lover. Trans. Bray, B. New York: Random House. First edition: 1984Themes: love, coming of age, Indochina, colonial society

Published in 1984, The Lover won the Prix Goncourt that year. This autobiographical novel tells the story of a French teenage girl living in Indochina and her encounter with a young Chinese heir, which will influence the rest of her life. He introduces her to the pleasures of love. Their relationship, which is forbidden by the young girl’s family, the man’s father and colonial society, ends when she must return to France, leaving him still in love with her.

This novel was met with dizzying success: it has sold almost three million copies and been translated into more than 40 languages.

Summary

In the autumn of her life, a woman looks back on her year-and-a-half-long relationship with her first lover.

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