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Yann Andréa Steiner by Marguerite Duras & Barbara Bray is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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A memoir by the author of The Lover and Summer Rain describes her relationship with a man thirty years her junior who has helped her overcome, despair, illness, and alcoholism.From Publishers WeeklyIn this lyrical memoir, French novelist Duras sketchily describes her affair with Yann Andrea Steiner, a man 30 years her junior, who helped her overcome alcoholism and depression. To further explore the bounds of unconventional or illicit love, Duras interweaves a semi-mythic tale about Johanna, an 18-year-old camp counselor who loves a six-year-old orphan named Samuel Steiner. Joanna tells Samuel that in 10 years they will reunite at midnight on a beach and make love. Samuel, we learn, is a Holocaust survivor who saw his sister murdered by a German soldier. There is yet another story-within-a-story: Johanna's fanciful allegory of cruelty and compassion involving a boy named David, a shark who wears a baseball cap and a weeping Fountain which dances a Guatemalan polka. The disparate parts of this mannered, self-indulgent exercise do not cohere into a whole. Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc. From Library JournalIt is the summer of 1980, the summer that brought solidarity to

Who reads Yann Andréa Steiner?

Author

Marguerite Duras & Barbara Bray

Publisher

Scribner, Archipelago Books

Published

1989

Language

EN

ISBN

9781935744221

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Criticism, Fiction, History