Coleccion Andanzas: El Amante (Edition 25) (Paperback)

from TimBazzett

THE LOVER, a novel by Marguerite Duras, is a book I've had on my to-read list ever since I read a review of the film adaptation more than twenty years ago. The book is probably autobiographical fiction, since I have read that almost all of Duras's books are based on her own life. The book was fir...

from lucybrown

The Lover treads lines been between enigmatic and thready, subtle and shallow, frustrating as hell and heaven in a book. Fortunately, it came out on the right side of the lines for my tastes. Readers of Gide and Colette will probably like, or even love, Duras's novella.

from Pummzie

I loved this novella. The Lover is about the reflections of an older Parisian woman on pivotal moments in her adolescence both in Saigon and Paris. Except, true to life but rare in novels, these events are hazy, misremembered and haphazard and her recollections jump around from memory to aside to...

from lucybrown

The Lover treads lines been between enigmatic and thready, subtle and shallow, frustrating as hell and heaven in a book. Fortunately, it came out on the right side of the lines for my tastes. Readers of Gide and Colette will probably like, or even love, Duras's novella.

from japaul22

I'm not sure I really understood this book, my first attempt at a work by Duras. It's an autobiographical novel about a young white girl and her affair with an older Chinese man in Indochina. The title suggests this is the main narrative thread, but the narrator's relationship with her everchangi...