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3.8 AVERAGE
3.8 AVERAGE
i wish i had read a biography of duras before this--i would have understood more. it will definitely be a reread!
I really like Marguerite Duras – The Lover is one of my favorite books – but this book didn’t really do it for me. Duras is brilliant, but parts of it felt a bit mundane/dated. A lot of people love this book, though, so I feel like it’s just me!
dark
emotional
reflective
sad
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This book is very random and in itself, nothing extraordinary. But if you enjoy Duras, especially her writing style, this contains gems which are worth experiencing. Also, it is a very sincere account of her mental health struggles and some of her trauma, which I assume she felt comfortable broaching due to this being a result of a series of conversations with one of her best friends.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Alcoholism, Death, Mental illness
Moderate: Sexual assault
challenging
inspiring
reflective
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reflective
slow-paced
What I love above all: is her modesty. She touches me when she talks about serious things without ever taking pleasure. What makes me smile: is her megalomania when she talks about herself in the third person. What makes me sad: is that writing, inseparable from being "Marguerite Duras", inseparable from alcohol, inseparable from home, was as much what helped her to live as what drowned her. As a surface of contact with others, as a prison just as much. I wish and hope to be wrong, with the writing was more what drove her.
dark
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Best book, why would you read anything else?
dark
funny
reflective
medium-paced