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India Song by Marguerite Duras, Barbara Bray is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is India Song about?

Unseen voices narrate this story of the affair between the haunting Anne-Marie Stretter and the disgraced French vice-consul in Làhore. In the India of 1937, with the smell of laurels and leprosy permeating the air, the characters perform a dance of doomed love to the strains of a dying colonialism. Originally commissioned as a play for Britain's National Theatre, India Song was made into a film that premiered at the 1975 Cannes Film Festival. American Cinematographer praised it for its “imaginative use of voices creating an echo chamber effect that perpetuates the past," and Molly Haskell called it “Marguerite Duras' most perfectly realized film, the most feminine film I have seen, a rarefied work of lyricism, despair, and passion, imbued with a kind of primitive emotional hunger that is all the more moving for its austere setting."

Who reads India Song?

Author

Marguerite Duras, Barbara Bray

Publisher

Grove/Atlantic, Inc.;Grove Press

Published

2000

Language

EN

ISBN

9780802131355

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Performing Arts, Literary Fiction

Rating

3.66 / 5 (258 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14