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The Lover, Wartime Notebooks, Practicalities: Introduction by Rachel Kushner
Marguerite Duras was one of the leading intellectuals and novelists of postwar 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 prewar 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 today.
Book Details
- Publisher: Everyman's Library
- Publish Date: Nov 14th, 2017
- Pages: 504
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 8.00in - 4.80in - 1.20in - 1.14lb
- EAN: 9781101907931
- Categories: • Classics• Biographical• Literary
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About the Author
RACHEL KUSHNER is the author of Telex From Cuba (2008) and The Flamethrowers (2013), both of which were finalists for the National Book Award. Prior to becoming a novelist, she was an editor at both Grand Street and BOMB. She lives in Los Angeles.
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Praise for this book
PRACTICALITIES: "A mind alive to the possibilities of human experience and of the word, and a writer with the courage to publish truly her experience as a woman." --Newsday
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." --The Observer
THE LOVER: "An exquisite jewel of a novel, as multifaceted as a diamond, as seamless and polished as a pearl." --Boston Herald
What people are saying
📚 Boekhandel Donner 🏠Coolsingel 129 📞 010-4132070 📧 info@donner.nl 📦 Geen verzendkosten vanaf €15,- (NL en BE) 🎁 Cadeaus worden gratis ingepakt
(2/2) Bij Donner hebben wij weer een mooie collectie van Everyman's Library (@EverymansLib) op voorraad waaronder: 📕 'Dr Zhivago' van Boris Pasternak https://t.co/rXYPWp0zNC 📕 'The Lover, Wartime Notebooks, Practicalities' van Marguerite Duras https://t.co/TCpb46Ocnm https://t.co/05hQE7EHPZ