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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.
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"THE LOVER: Rarely have I read a novel so flawlessly written." (Spectator)
"Perfect, a tour de force ... dealing successfully with the strong themes of erotic love and death." (New York Times Book Review)
"WARTIME NOTEBOOKS: By turns ardent, raging, sensual and embittered ... A dreamlike, savage world, in which the great themes of love, war and death found their most recklessly impassioned chronicler." (Observer)
"PRACTICALITIES: Many of the anecdotes are small masterpieces ... a delight to read." (New Statesman)
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A hardback omnibus edition of the French writer's most famous novel alongside her fascinating wartime writings and a collection of searingly honest and intimate autobiographical essays.
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- PublisherEveryman
- Publication date2017
- ISBN 10 184159380X
- ISBN 13 9781841593807
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages504
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