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Debré on Minimalism and Excess

Debré on Minimalism and Excess

Constance Debré, Love Me Tender

Posted in Debre lecture, Lecture Videos | Tagged with accumulation, betrayal, C21st, excess, France, minimalism, motherhood, sexuality

12 Years Isn’t That Bad, Right? – The Lover

By far the shortest and most uncomfortable read at this point in the semester, The Lover by Marguerite Duras is a novel about the clandestine relationship between a 27-year-old man and a 15-year-old girl. The prose in this book is beautifully written, as an autobiography with Duras recalling her time in Saigon. She captures the […]

Posted in Blogs | Tagged with "whore", age-gaps, book review, book-reviews, books, colonialsation, complicated-family-relationships, family, fashion, fiction, France, gross, icky, love, Marguerite Duras, reading, Vietnam

The Lover – a reflection

Despite this book’s uncomfortable age gap relationship, I really enjoyed reading it. The way Duras writes “The Lover” hooked me the entire time. Her descriptions of the environment, like Saigon, to each complex and rich character, I felt so immersed in this novel. My heart was in this one! I really loved the first sentence […]

Posted in Blogs | Tagged with age gap, colonies, depression, family, France, race, saigon, social class, The Lover

Duras Questions

Duras Questions

Questions on The Lover

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Perec, Postmodernism, and Life Writing

Perec, Postmodernism, and Life Writing

Georges Perec, W, or the Memory of Childhood

Posted in Lecture Videos, Perec lecture | Tagged with C20th, childhood, France, life, politics, postmodernism, postmodernity, resistance, war, writing

On Georges Perec

On Georges Perec

A conversation with Vincent Gélinas-Lemaire

Posted in Conversation Videos, Perec videos | Tagged with constraint, detail, France, freedom, memory, order, repetition, rules, totalitarianism, utopia, war

Perec Questions

Perec Questions

Questions on W, or the Memory of Childhood

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The Little White Girl (The Lover) – Marguerite Duras

I was really excited about reading this book and finished it in one sitting. I enjoyed it thoroughly. It takes the number one spot for me dethroning The Time of Doves. The Lover, a novel about exploration of identity with a hint of coming-of-age, will stay with me for a while. Let’s address the elephant […]

Posted in Blogs, Duras | Tagged with COA, coming of age, Dysfunctional Family, family, Forbidden, France, identity, Indochina, Lolita, love, Marguerite Duras, melancholy, nostalgia, Personal Growth, poverty, The Lover, Vietnam

Sagan on Translation and Affect

Sagan on Translation and Affect

Françoise Sagan, Bonjour Tristesse

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Sagan Questions

Sagan Questions

Questions on Bonjour Tristesse

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