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A review by dpower711
The Impudent Ones by Marguerite Duras
2.0
Notably the only one of Duras' novels to not be published in English, 2021 will change all that. Here we have a work in translation, a novel about French nobles and how the previously unsought Maud becomes a person of interest in a pre war love triangle.
My first thought was that this was like the Netflix special -Bridgerton - except set in France. This did not bode well.
This book is about an aristocratic family and their fiscal difficulties. Jacques is a total scab always begging for money and then blowing it all and having to ask for more. Maud looks out the window a lot. At their summer residence, John the farmer pursues Maud and so does another man and I had totally lost interest by this point.
It was the accounts of how author Marguerite Duras rose to stardom with her erotic debut The Lover that piqued my interest in this book. The Lover won the Prix Goncourt but unfortunately the writing wasn't strong enough to sustain me.
My first thought was that this was like the Netflix special -Bridgerton - except set in France. This did not bode well.
This book is about an aristocratic family and their fiscal difficulties. Jacques is a total scab always begging for money and then blowing it all and having to ask for more. Maud looks out the window a lot. At their summer residence, John the farmer pursues Maud and so does another man and I had totally lost interest by this point.
It was the accounts of how author Marguerite Duras rose to stardom with her erotic debut The Lover that piqued my interest in this book. The Lover won the Prix Goncourt but unfortunately the writing wasn't strong enough to sustain me.