One of the few texts that the French writer Marguerite Duras set in her childhood home of Indochina, The Sea Wall was also her first publication to gain both critical and popular notoriety and success. The novel incorporates themes of… Read More ›
Marguerite Duras
Analysis of Marguerite Duras’s The Sailor from Gibraltar
Told from a first-person point of view, The Sailor from Gibraltar is a story by the acclaimed French author Marguerite Duras (1914–96). The novel tells of a dissatisfied man in his thirties who is in the midst of a hapless… Read More ›
Analysis of Marguerite Duras’s The North China Lover
The North China Lover was published late in the French author’s life (1914–96). The short novel primarily revisits the events of Marguerite Duras’s 1984 celebrated novel The Lover (L’Amant), and tells of a pivotal love affair between an unnamed teenage… Read More ›
Analysis of Marguerite Duras’s The Lover
The novelistic memoir The Lover by Marguerite Duras (1914–96) is a modernist story of sexual coming of age in French colonial Vietnam. It is also a portrait of the young author. It is the most accessible and by far the… Read More ›
Key Theories of Marguerite Duras
Marguerite Duras (1914–1996) is one of France’s most important and interesting intellectual figures. She excelled at being a writer, filmmaker and dramatist. After the Second World War she also worked for a number of years as a journalist for France-Observateur…. Read More ›
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