“Never again shall I..” “From now on I’ll…” “I shall…” “I’ll always have…” (pg. 34). I miss the childlike naivety of knowing everything. While this paragraph seems to be the narrator reflecting on her life, it can also be a manifestation of the young girl determined to be with a man who is majorly, inappropriately, […]
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Marguerite Duras’s The Lover feels very different from a typical love story. What stood out to me the most while reading was how much the novel focuses on memory rather than simply telling a story about a relationship. The narrator is looking back on events that happened more than fifty years earlier, which makes everything […]
While reading The Lover by Marguerite Duras, I was immediately struck by the unusual relationship of the story. The novel describes a relationship between a fifteen year old French girl and an older Chinese man in colonial Vietnam. Because of the large age difference, the story initially reminded me of another well known novel, Lolita […]
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To be honest, I think this is one of the books so far that I actually did not particularly enjoy reading. I just could not get over the fact that the age gap between the two characters was 12 years. There was a lingering discomfort and I really could not get myself to immerse myself […]
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Another book, another terrible love interest. Can we talk about how everyone in this narrator’s life is simply awful? To begin with, she’s fifteen and a half when she meets and begins a sexual relationship with a twenty-seven-year-old man. When her mother discovers that she’s been skipping school so he can pick her up in […]
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Just finished reading The Lover by
Marguerite Duras, I feel so tired. It is like emotionally exhausted. The story
line seems like she just writes things when she thinks about it.
First of all, I really like how she sees
her ravaged face as the on…
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Just finished reading The Lover by
Marguerite Duras, I feel so tired. It is like emotionally exhausted. The story
line seems like she just writes things when she thinks about it.
First of all, I really like how she sees
her ravaged face as the on…
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This book sent a mix of emotions while I was reading it. Although it wasn’t exactly portrayed in the book, the age different between the characters… like can we talk about it? The lover, of whom we don’t even know his name, is in his mid-twenties…
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This book sent a mix of emotions while I was reading it. Although it wasn’t exactly portrayed in the book, the age different between the characters… like can we talk about it? The lover, of whom we don’t even know his name, is in his mid-twenties…
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