Author: Marguerite Duras
Publisher: Les Editions de Minuit
Keywords: french, amant
Number of Pages: 142
Published: 1984-05-01
List price: $24.15
ISBN-10: 2707306959
ISBN-13: 9782707306951

Author: Marguerite Duras
Publisher: New Press
Keywords: novel, lover, china, north
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 1993-05-01
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 1565840437
ISBN-13: 9781565840430

An instant number-one best-seller in France, The North China Lover both shocks and entrances its readers. Initially written as notes toward a film script for The Lover, the book has the grainy, filmic qualities of a documentary. Far more daring and truthful than any book Duras has written before, The North China Lover emphasizes the realities of her youth in Indochina and reveals much that her earlier works concealed.

Author: Marguerite Duras
Publisher: Open Letter Books; Univ of Nebraska Press
Keywords: modern, classics, letter, open, gibraltar, sailor
Number of Pages: 276
Published: 2008-12
List price: $12.95
ISBN-10: 1934824046
ISBN-13: 9781934824047

Disaffected, bored with his career at the French Colonial Ministry (where he has copied out birth and death certificates for eight years), and disgusted by a mistress whose vapid optimism arouses his most violent misogyny, the narrator of The Sailor from Gibraltar finds himself at the point of complete breakdown while vacationing in Florence. After leaving his mistress and the Ministry behind forever, he joins the crew of The Gibraltar, a yacht captained by Anna, a beautiful American in perpetual search of her sometime lover, a young man known only as the "Sailor from Gibraltar." First publish

Author: Marguerite Duras
Publisher: Grove Press
Keywords: death, malady
Number of Pages: 64
Published: 1994-01-13
List price: $10.00
ISBN-10: 0802130364
ISBN-13: 9780802130365

A man hires a woman to spend several weeks with him by the sea. The woman is no one in particular, a "she," a warm, moist body with a beating heart-the enigma of Other. Skilled in the mechanics of sex, he desires through her to penetrate a different mystery: he wants to learn love. It isn’t a matter of will, she tells him. Still, he wants to learn to try . . .This beautifully wrought erotic novel is an extended haiku on the meaning of love, "perhaps a sudden lapse in the logic of the universe," and of its absence, "the malady of death." "The whole tragedy of the inability to love is in t

Author: Marguerite Duras
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
Keywords:
Number of Pages: 80
Published: 1998-08
List price: $17.95
ISBN-10: 1888363657
ISBN-13: 9781888363654

Available for the first time in English, "No More (C’est Tout"), written during the last year of Duras’s life, is literature shorn of all its niceties, a shout from the depths of the author’s being, celebrating life in defiance of death. "Duras’s language and writing shine like crystals".--"The New Yorker" Print ads. .

Author: Marguerite Duras
Publisher: Grove Press
Keywords: practicalities
Number of Pages: 143
Published: 1993-10-22
List price: $12.00
ISBN-10: 0802133118
ISBN-13: 9780802133113

"It’s the women who upset the applecart. Between themselves they talk only about the practicalities of life," declares Duras in this collection of her transcribed conversations with friend Jerome Beaujour. Some of her free-ranging meditations are short and deceptively simple, while many are autobiographical and reveal her most intimate thoughts about motherhood, her struggle with alcohol, her love for a young man, and more.

Author: Marguerite Duras
Publisher: Grove Press
Keywords: night, afternoon, andesmas, summer, cantabile, novels, square, moderato, four
Number of Pages: 254
Published: 1994-01-13
List price: $13.00
ISBN-10: 0802151116
ISBN-13: 9780802151117