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viii, 424 pages : 24 cm "Marguerite Duras was one of 20th century France's most influential and complex figures - a phenomenally productive and daring writer and filmaker, a passionate political activist, and a charismatic and infuriating friend and lover. Duras drew constantly on her own experience in her art, often blurring the boundaries between the two. In this biography, Laure Adler deftly leads us through Duras' eventful life, sifting fact from fiction by drawing on letters, diaries and notebooks, as well as many hours of tape-recorded conversations with Duras." "Adler never flinches from the unpleasant and contradictory aspects of Duras' character - her work for the occupying forces during the war, her alchoholism and increasing narcissism in later life - but also conveys her extraordinary creative energy, bravery and sensuality. She sensitively charts Duras' turbulent personal life and many loves, ending with her relationship with Yann Andrea, a homosexual forty years her junior, who stayed with her for the last sixteen years of her life."--BOOK JACKET Originally published in French in 1998 by Gallimard Includes bibliographical references and index

Author

Laure Adler

Publisher

Gollancz; Orion Publishing Group, Limited

Published

2000

Language

EN

ISBN

9780575067707

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Romance, Memoir