Hi everyone! I enjoyed reading Marguerite Duras’s autobiography The Lover but was shocked and skeptical. This story starts when her whole family is together, but then her father dies, leaving her family without any incoming income, so they go to …
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Hi everyone! I enjoyed reading Marguerite Duras’s autobiography The Lover but was shocked and skeptical. This story starts when her whole family is together, but then her father dies, leaving her family without any incoming income, so they go to …
Posted in Blogs, Duras | Tagged with autobiography, Degrading, experience, Fantasizing, feelings, lover, saigon
To begin with, I found Bonjour Tristesse to be quite an intriguing, if a bit desolate, read. Sagan’s descriptions, especially when he focuses on the French upper class in the beginning of the twentieth century has an almost lyrical, romantic feel to it. What caught my interest the most the more I read of the novel was […]
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