Marguerite Duras’ Universe of Love

Title: The Lover Author: Marguerite Duras Publication information: Les Éditions de Minuit, 1984 (first edition)   It won the Goncourt Prize in 1984 as the semi-autobiographical novel-turned-movie directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud in 1992. Set around the backdrop of French colonial Vietnam, The Lover reveals the intimacies of a clandestine romance between a fifteen-year-old girl from […]

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