"The Lover"

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This paper discusses Marguerite Duras' (born Marguerite Donnadieu) novel "The Lover." The paper shows how the novel mirrors part of Duras' own life. It discusses her knowledge of the landscape of Indochina, the people, the mode of life and the tensions of that part of the world during the era that she wrote about and discusses how she brings that out in the book.

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"The novel evokes a time and place that has experienced a great deal of history since and that passed through a long war and its aftermath. Duras lived there before much of the trouble started in earnest, though some of the sources of the tension between different groups in this society can be seen in this novel. She creates an image of often contradictory and overly dramatic human action surrounded by a sea that is more timeless and continuous. Duras draws on her own story for the details and her memory for the setting and the society of that time, creating a book that is always interesting if somewhat depressing about human nature and human relations."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Duras, Marguerite. The Lover. New York: Pantheon, 1998.
• "Marguerite Duras (1914-1996)." Books and Writers (2000). December 12, 2006. http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/duras.htm.

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