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  The Lover Margerite a Tale of Seduction Duras HCDJ
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Make/Author/Artist: Duras
Details: Hard Cover

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Product Code: DURAS

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The Lover - Marguerite Duras

In this sad, cool, short novel, Duras tells the largely autobiographical story of a 15-year-old European girl's first affair with an older Chinese man in French Indochina during the 1930s.

Stereotypes and expectations are inverted: she is poor, he wealthy; she seduces him, not vice versa; she controls the relationship, does not love him though he is hopelessly besotted with her, and
she dictates all the terms, including how and when it ends.

Duras uses cinematic techniques -- flashbacks and forwards, repetitions, incidents cut up and interrupted by seemingly unrelated descriptions -- and switches between first and third person to enrich what at first seems a fairly dry and unadorned narrative.

CONDITION:Hard Cover w/ Dust Jacket, light wear, fraying to edges of DJ, previous owner added a few bits of marginalia in the form of lines along the edges of paragraphs he particularly liked.

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