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Set in the pre-war Indochina of Marguerite Duras' childhood, this is the haunting tale of a tumultuous affair between an adolescent French girl and her Chinese lover. In spare yet luminous prose, Duras evokes life on the margins of Saigon in the waning days of France's colonial empire, and its representation in the passionate relationship between two unforgettable outcasts.","brand":"Pantheon Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53552876290414,"sku":"9780375700521","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0984\/1007\/0382\/files\/imageloader_bc7bf308-4831-42dd-b5a7-27e4bd26ca04.jpg?v=1774575002"},{"product_id":"me-other-writing","title":"Me \u0026 Other Writing","description":"\u003cb\u003eA career-spanning collection of Marguerite Duras's genre-bending essays that \u003ci\u003eKirkus\u003c\/i\u003e calls \"a luminous, erudite exploration of the self and art.\"\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In her nonfiction as well as her fiction, Marguerite Duras's curiosity was endless, her intellect voracious. Within a single essay she might roam from Flaubert to the \"scattering of desire\" to the Holocaust; within the body of her essays overall, style is always evolving, subject matter shifting, as her mind pushes beyond the obvious toward ever-original ground. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ci\u003eMe \u0026amp; Other Writing\u003c\/i\u003e is a guidebook to the extraordinary breadth of Duras's nonfiction. From the stunning one-page \"Me\" to the sprawling 70-page \"Summer 80,\" there is not a piece in this collection that can be easily categorized. These are essayistic works written for their times but too virtuosic to be relegated to history, works of commentary or recollection or reportage that are also, unmistakably, works of art.","brand":"Dorothy a Publishing Project","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53552876421486,"sku":"9781948980029","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0984\/1007\/0382\/files\/imageloader_3c52a79b-906f-4d96-99da-169f53f1b27f.jpg?v=1774575008"},{"product_id":"practicalities","title":"Practicalities","description":"\"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.","brand":"Grove Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53552876487022,"sku":"9780802133113","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0984\/1007\/0382\/files\/imageloader_05a24374-648e-4c35-ba40-ddbd6e424455.jpg?v=1774575010"},{"product_id":"destroy-she-said","title":"Destroy, She Said","description":"In this classic novel by the best-selling author of The Lover, erotic intrigue masks a chillingly deceptive form of madness. Elisabeth Alione is convalescing in a hotel in rural France when she meets two men and another woman. The sophisticated dalliance among the four serves to obscure an underlying violence, which, when the curtain of civilization is drawn aside, reveals in her fellow guests a very contemporary, perhaps even new, form of insanity. Like many of Duras's novels, Destroy, She Said owes much to cinema, displaying a skillful interplay of dialogue and description. There are recurring moods and motifs from the Duras repertoire: eroticism, lassitude, stifled desire, a beautiful woman, a mysterious forest, a desolate provincial hotel. Included in this volume is an in-depth interview with Duras by Jacques Rivette and Jean Narboni.","brand":"Grove Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53552876552558,"sku":"9780802151544","price":14.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0984\/1007\/0382\/files\/imageloader_42be5d1c-09f5-43d6-94b5-2a42297c5cd4.jpg?v=1774575013"},{"product_id":"the-malady-of-death","title":"The Malady of Death","description":"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 this work, thanks to Duras' unparalleled art of reinventing the most familiar words, of weighing their meaning.\" - Le Monde; \"Deceptively simple and Racinian in its purity, condensed to the essential.\" - Translation Review.","brand":"Grove Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54379456954734,"sku":"9780802130365","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0984\/1007\/0382\/files\/imageloader_2cc73613-05b1-4f69-8d4a-e8218d170e7f.jpg?v=1784844915"},{"product_id":"the-impudent-ones","title":"The Impudent Ones","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublished for the first time in English, the debut novel of Marguerite Duras--renowned author of \u003cem\u003eThe Lover\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe War\u003c\/em\u003e--is the story of a family's moral reckoning and a daughter's fall from grace\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMarguerite Duras rose to global stardom with her erotic masterpiece \u003cem\u003eThe Lover\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003e(L'Amant)\u003c\/em\u003e, which won the prestigious Prix Goncourt, has over a million copies in print in English, has been translated into forty-three languages, and was adapted into a canonical film in 1992. While almost all of Duras's novels have been translated into English, her debut \u003cem\u003eThe Impudent Ones \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e(Les Impudents)\u003c\/em\u003e has been a glaring exception--until now. Fans of Duras will be thrilled to discover the germ of her bold, vital prose and signature blend of memoir and fiction in this intense and mournful story of the Taneran family, which introduces Duras's classic themes of familial conflict, illicit romance, and scandal in the sleepy suburbs and southwest provinces of France.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDuras's great gift was her ability to bring vivid and passionate life to characters with whom society may not have sympathized, but with whom readers certainly do. With storytelling that evokes in equal parts beauty and brutality, \u003cem\u003eThe Impudent Ones\u003c\/em\u003e depicts the scalding effects of seduction and disrepute on the soul of a young French girl.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIncluding an essay on the story behind \u003cem\u003eThe Impudent Ones\u003c\/em\u003e by Jean Vallier--biographer of the late Duras--which contextualizes the origins of Duras's debut novel, this one-of-a-kind publishing endeavor will delight established Duras fans and a new generation of readers alike.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"New Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54379456987502,"sku":"9781620976517","price":25.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0984\/1007\/0382\/files\/imageloader_c521f211-d676-49c3-b27f-9e02503901e9.jpg?v=1784844918"},{"product_id":"the-war","title":"The War","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrom the bestselling author of \u003cem\u003eThe Lover\u003c\/em\u003e, Marguerite Duras's haunting memoir of suffering and survival in a time when Europe was torn asunder\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWritten in 1944 and first published in 1985, Duras's riveting account of life in Paris during the Nazi occupation and the first months of liberation depicts the harrowing realities of World War II-era France \"with a rich conviction enhanced by [a] spare, almost arid, technique\" (Julian Barnes, \u003cem\u003eThe Washington Post Book World\u003c\/em\u003e ). Duras, by then married and part of a French resistance network headed by François Mitterand, tells of nursing her starving husband back to health after his return from Bergen-Belsen, interrogating a suspected collaborator, and playing a game of cat and mouse with a Gestapo officer who was attracted to her. The result is \"more than one woman's diary . . . 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Ostensibly the story of a love affair between a Japanese architect and a French actress visiting Japan to make a film on peace, Hiroshima Mon Amour is a stunning exploration of the influence of war on both Japanese and French culture and the conflict between love and humanity.","brand":"Grove Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54379457053038,"sku":"9780802131041","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0984\/1007\/0382\/files\/imageloader_c20c40bd-77db-49c8-89ed-a62ea537667c.jpg?v=1784844921"},{"product_id":"marguerite-duras-writing","title":"Marguerite Duras: Writing","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWriting\u003c\/i\u003e, one of Marguerite Duras's last works, is a meditation on the process of writing and on her need for solitude in order to do it. In the five short pieces collected in this volume, she explores experiences that had an emotional impact on her and that inspired her to write. These vary from the death of a pilot in World War II, to the death of a fly, to an art exhibition. Two of the pieces were made into documentary films, and one was originally a short film. Both autobiographical and fictional, like much of her work, \u003ci\u003eWriting\u003c\/i\u003e displays Duras's unique worldview and sensitive insight in her simple and poetic prose.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Minnesota Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54379457085806,"sku":"9780816677535","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0984\/1007\/0382\/files\/imageloader_8cc0a211-24c3-41d3-912e-66a9c66ce4be.jpg?v=1784844922"},{"product_id":"the-darkroom","title":"The Darkroom","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Darkroom\u003c\/em\u003e contains the script for Marguerite Duras' 1977 radically experimental film \u003cem\u003eLe camion\u003c\/em\u003e (The Truck), as well as four manifesto-like propositions in which Duras protests that most movies \"beat the imagination to death\" because they \"are the same every time they are played.\" She also accuses the gatekeepers of traditional cinema of treating intelligence as if it were a \"class phenomenon\" and distinguishes her own approach: a cinema based on ideas and sensory experience. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the dialogue with Michelle Porte at the end of the book, Duras further describes her filmmaking style, discussing everything from her biography to her critique of Marxism.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTranslated by Alta Ifland \u0026amp; Eireene Nealand, and featuring an introduction by Jean-Luc Nancy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Contra Mundum Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54379457118574,"sku":"9781940625447","price":16.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0984\/1007\/0382\/files\/imageloader_2fe0f703-3d86-4bcb-bf20-e0f1ac487afd.jpg?v=1784844923"},{"product_id":"the-lover-wartime-notebooks-practicalities","title":"The Lover, Wartime Notebooks, Practicalities","description":"\u003cb\u003eA hardcover omnibus edition of the French writer's most famous novel--the basis for the film \u003ci\u003eMemoir of War\u003c\/i\u003e--alongside her fascinating wartime writings and a collection of intimate autobiographical essays. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMarguerite 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. 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