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An astonishing meditation on the horrors of the war and on the obsessive power of personal fidelity in love.”
Francine Du Plessix Gray, The New York Times Book Review

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 II–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 François 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).

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An astonishing meditation on the horrors of the war and on the obsessive power of personal fidelity in love.”
New York Times Book Review

No recent memoir has evoked the 1940s in France so eloquently or paid such close attention to suffering and emotional numbness. The diarist spares no one, neither the victims, the victors, the reader, nor herself.”
Time

Marguerite Duras's writing reminds one of the late Red Smith's simple advice on how to write: just sit at your typewriter, open a vein, and let it out, drop by drop. . . . Duras writes in an unmannered prose, so spare its very stylelessness is itself a style, using cinematic, fragmented technique.”
Virginia Quarterly Review

This book is at once elegant and brutal in its honesty: in Duras's world we are all outcasts, and the word ‘liberation’ is never free of irony. A powerful, moving work.”
Kirkus Reviews
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This work, written in 1944, but published in 1985, form a totally new image of the heroine of "The Lover" and, through her, of Paris during the Nazi occupation and the first months of liberation. Married and living in Paris, part of a resistance network headed by Francois Mitterand, Duras is swept up in the turmoil of the period. She tells of nursing her starving husband back to life on his return from Bergen-Belsen, interrogating a suspected collaborator, and playing a game of cat and mouse with a Gestapo officer who is attracted to her.

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  • PublisherThe New Press
  • Publication date1994
  • ISBN 10 1565842219
  • ISBN 13 9781565842212
  • BindingPaperback
  • Number of pages192
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