The Lover by Marguerite Duras. I cannot say I enjoyed reading this week’s novel as much as I thought I would. Maybe because it was confusing, with the change of perspectives and no clear chronological timeline throughout the novel but with different paragraphs mentioning different events or people in the girl’s life. One page would […]
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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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I am grateful for the fact that as we read these books throughout the year, the time each is written in is getting more and more modern, and thus I feel like the language used is almost easier for me to understand as well. However what strikes me is the material of much of the … Continue reading Thoughts on The Lover
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When talking about illicit relationships that make all of us uncomfortable in some way or the other this class ate and left no crumbs, so did this book honestly. But this was definitely an interesting read, I also think it might be the best one so far. Duras’s story goes well beyond a straightforward romance […]
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I want to start by saying this book surprised me in that the relationship with the older man was so readily accepted. The narrator explains the story as if the natural hierarchy is dismantled, which would be nice in theory but I believe she is deluded in her train of thought. In the lecture, it […]
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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Hello everyone! This weeks book is The Lover by Marguerite Duras, set during the French colonial occupation of south east Asia. It is an autobiographical story of Duras’ family’s struggles with death and poverty, as well as her affair with “the l…
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Hello everyone! This weeks book is The Lover by Marguerite Duras, set during the French colonial occupation of south east Asia. It is an autobiographical story of Duras’ family’s struggles with death and poverty, as well as her affair with “the l…
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“One day, I was already old, in the entrance of a public place a man came up to me. He introduced himself and said, ‘I’ve known you for years. Everyone says you were beautiful when you were young, but I want to tell you I think you’re more beautiful now than then. Rather than your […]
Hey Everyone! This week’s book is “The Lover” by Marguerite Duras. This book was an interesting read because it was very strange yet it kept me wanting to read more. It felt like one of those forbidden reads where I wanted to see if the nameless 2…
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