by Marguerite Duras (Author), Linda Coverdale (translator ) (Author)
Marguerite Duras was one the leading intellectuals and novelists of post-war France. She kept four notebooks in a cupboard in her country home in France, but until recently the importance of the material she wrote between 1943 and 1949 was not recognized. These notebooks retrace the formative experiences in Duras' life - her difficult childhood in Indochina; her harrowing wait for her husband's return from concentration camp - and reveal the personal history behind her bestselling novels The Lover and La Douleur. These are intimate documents, chronicling each hope and disappointment with a spontaneity and authenticity that make for an unparalleled sense of closeness with the reader. As an insight into the life and work of a major European writer this is an utterly absorbing volume.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 400
Publisher: Quercus
Published: 06 Jan 2011
ISBN 10: 1847247334
ISBN 13: 9781847247339
Marguerite Duras was one of France's outstanding authors and playwrights of the second half of the 20th century, famously Hiroshima, Mon Amour. She came to be celebrated in late life for two bestselling works, published in Britain as The Lover and La Douleur.
Linda Coverdale is an awarding-winner translator living in New York City.