Again and again, the novel returns to the seduction, and to sex, and has a moody power that Duras fans will welcome and applaud. The Lover Series by Marguerite Duras The Lover Series 2 primary works 2 total works Book 1 The Lover by Marguerite Duras 3. About the author (1998) One of France's most important literary figures, MARGUERITE DURAS is best known in the United States for her novel The Lover, and for her brilliant film script. And yet the characters-who have no dramatic roles to play here-emerge as dark symbols that have a psychological immediacy for the narrator that can here and there be shared. Set in the prewar Indochina of Marguerite Durass childhood, this is the haunting tale of a tumultuous affair between an adolescent French girl and her.
(The Chinese lover is the first of hundreds-or it is implied that he is-who will never fully succeed in distracting her from her feelings of shame.) The connections that Duras is trying for remain hazy. Written when Duras was turning 70, The Lover is one of those great literary acts of looking back. She uses these clothes to seduce a wealthy Chinese merchant (scorned by the French colonists) and to free herself, for a time, from the emotional demands of a sordid family life.
From the perspective of old age, the ""I"" narrator of this eerie and compact autobiographical novel-which won the 1985 Prix Goncourt in France and has sold 700,000 copies there-relives her troubled adolescence by means of weighted images: frozen memories of her impoverished, harried mother, a schoolmistress in pre-World War II French Indochina, where the narrator grew up of the narrator's two brothers, the older one corrupt and menacing, the younger mute and gentle but meant to die at a young age and of herself at 15, especially aboard a ferry crossing the Mekong River into Saigon, dressed in thin silk, an old felt hat and golden sandals. 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars.
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