This week I read the book “The Lover” by Marguerite Duras. It was a little confusing as the POVs do switch from first-person to third-person quite often throughout the book. For example, in the beginning of the novel, we read about her experience on the boat and then all of a sudden we find out […]
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Hey everyone! This week, I decided to read The Lover by Marguerite Duras. There’s only three more books left to read this semester it’s going by so fast! So we have another uncomfortable read this week, yay. As a few of my classmates mentioned, this book is definitely disturbing and unsettling. I feel like this […]
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Hi everyone! This week’s reading was on ‘The Lover’ by Marguerite Duras. What an interesting read! This was definitely a book that made me uncomfortable and had me physically reacting by pushing the book away seemingly every other page. The story focuses on the life of a young French woman and her affair with an […]
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The Lover tells the story of a French girl who, at the time, lived in Indo-China and begins an affair with a wealthy Chinese man who is 12 years older than her. The story’s main focus is on the narrator’s odd affair, while the narrator’s memories with her family members are intertwined as the narrative […]
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As we progress through our course and look at more “modernised” literature, this one appears to be the most prevalent thus far. With the narrator being able to attend school and facing less sexism (comparatively) , this seemed like a significant step forward from the previous novels we have read. Perhaps some of these chances […]
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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 […]
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Hi everyone! Welcome back yet again. The semester is flying by. This week’s book was The Lover by Marguerite Duras, and I found it quite interesting. When I told my dad I was reading this book, he told me that he had reread it not long ago because he liked it so much and found […]
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Hi everyone, this is my blog post for this week’s novel The Lover by Marguerite Duras. There is a lot to unpack with this book and honestly, there are so many different themes and layers that make this highly inappropriate relationship so complex. Firstly, I agree with what was stated in the lecture, which is […]
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After reading this novel, I’m now thinking about the subject of names. When the girl (who, as far as I can tell, was never named) talks about her lover and her family, they are not named (unless I missed the mentions of their names) – except when she names her younger brother, “our little Paulo” […]
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I like to say that I have read plenty of horrible romance stories in my lifetime, and have seen plenty of interesting (read: “disturbing”) tropes regarding relationships in the process. So when I received a content warning regarding this book, I simply brushed it aside thinking that it wouldn’t be too bad on my end. […]
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