A review by oumaima_mekni
The Lover by Marguerite Duras

5.0

beautiful words weaved with melancholia and tinges of regrets, yet they spoke of the defiance of a young girl of fifteen who didn't perceive life with the same orthodox outlook as her peers, she probed her uncharted carnal desires, and grappled with the bitter-sweet relationship she had with her family. I don't consider her story with the older man a romance, therefore, I don't condone it in any way. I rather see it as a an experience of an adolescent who were merely too curious to have a taste of what she thought was 'adulthood', forced by circumstances to break with childhood way too soon.