The War
1986Authors, FrenchBiographyWorld War, 1939-1945Personal narratives, FrenchFrench Personal narratives
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These extraordinary pages, written in 1944 but first published in 1985, form a totally new image of the heroine of *The Lover* and, through her, of Paris during the Nazi Occupation and the first months of Liberation. Married and living in Paris, part of a Resistance network headed by François Mitterrand, Duras is swept up in the turmoil of the period. She tells of nursing her starving husband back to life on his return from Belsen; interrogating a suspected collaborator; playing a game of cat and mouse with a Gestapo officer who is attracted to her; and more. The result is a book as moving as it is harrowing - perhaps Duras's finest yet.
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Authors, FrenchBiographyWorld War, 1939-1945Personal narratives, FrenchFrench Personal narrativesFrench Authors
First published 1986Characters & people
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20th century
About the author
Marguerite Duras
1914 – 1996
Marguerite Duras — nom de plume de Marguerite Donnadieu — est une écrivaine, dramaturge, scénariste et réalisatrice française, née le 4 avril 1914 à Gia Định, près de Saïgon, alors en Indochine française, et morte le 3 mars 1996 à Paris. Par la diversité et la modernité de son œuvre, qui renouvelle le genre romanesque et bouscule les conventions théâtrales et cinématographiques, elle est une figure majeure de la littérature de la seconde moitié du XXe siècle. ---------- Marguerite Duras — pen name of Marguerite Donnadieu — was a French writer, playwright, screenwriter, and director, born on April 4, 1914, in Gia Định, near Saigon, then in French Indochina, and died on March 3, 1996…
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