![]() And it features one of the compelling themes of Duras’s own life: her passionate attachment to a brother who died young, a year before she wrote the novel. Duras often plundered her own life for subject matter: in The Easy Life she turns to the remote village in south-east France from which her father had come and which she had visited as a teenager. In The Easy Life, the first English translation of her second novel, published in France in 1944, the quintessential Duras tone is already here – stripped-down staccato sentences, remorseless introspection.ĭuras is best known today for The Lover, a novel written when she was 70 a fictional version of her own youthful love affair in French Indochina (today’s Vietnam) with a Chinese Vietnamese man, it won the Prix Goncourt and was made into a successful film. To scroll through her bibliography is to pull up a mass of novels, stories, plays, screenplays, in a creative lifespan from 1943 until her death in 1996. M arguerite Duras was a literary phenomenon. ![]()
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