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Abahn Sabana David by Marguerite Duras; Kazim Ali (Translator)
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
"Duras's language and writing shine like crystals."--The New Yorker"A spectacular success. . . . Duras is at the height of her powers."--Edmund WhiteAvailable for the first time in English, Abahn Sabana David is a late-career masterpiece from one of France's greatest writers.Late one evening, David and ...Show more
Me & Other Writing by Marguerite Duras (translated by Olivia Baes and Emma Ramadan )
$35.00 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
A career-spanning collection of Marguerite Duras’s genre-bending essays that Kirkus calls a luminous, erudite exploration of the self and art. In her nonfiction as well as her fiction, Marguerite Duras’s curiosity was endless, her intellect voracious. Within a single essay she might roam from Flaubert t ...Show more
Moderato Cantabile by Marguerite Duras
$17.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A distressed young man murders the woman he loves in a caf�, watched by a large crowd. Fascinated by the crime she has witnessed, Anne Desbaresdes returns several times to the scene, forming a relationship with a man who also saw the murder, and drinking through the afternoon with him as he patiently an ...Show more
Suspended Passion: Interviews by Marguerite Duras
$46.95 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks | Series: SB-The French List
A controversial figure of the postwar French literary and cultural scene, Marguerite Duras has exerted a powerful hold on readers around the world. This volume of interviews--hailed on its French publication as Duras's "secret confession"--offers readers a rich vein of new insight into her work, opinion ...Show more
Suspended Passion - Interviews by Marguerite Duras; Chris Turner (Translator)
$24.99 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals | Series: The\French List Ser.
A controversial figure of the postwar French literary and cultural scene, Marguerite Duras has exerted a powerful hold on readers around the world. This volume of interviews--hailed on its French publication as Duras's "secret confession"--offers readers a rich vein of new insight into her work, opinion ...Show more
The Darkroom by Marguerite Duras; Jean-Luc Nancy (Introduction by); Alta Ifland (Translator)
$33.00 AUD
Category: Film & TV
The Darkroom contains the script for Marguerite Duras' 1977 radically experimental film Le camion (The Truck), as well as four manifesto-like propositions in which Duras protests that most movies "beat the imagination to death" because they "are the same every time they are played." She also accuses the ...Show more
The Easy Life by Marguerite Duras
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
For the first time in English, literary icon Marguerite Duras's foundational masterpiece about a young woman's existential breakdown in the deceptively peaceful French countryside.The Easy Life is the story of Francine Veyrenattes, a twenty-five-year-old woman who already feels like life is passing her ...Show more
The Garden Square by Marguerite Duras; Sonia Pitt-Rivers (Translator); Anne Borchardt (Translator); Irina Morduch (Translator)
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A young woman, working as a childminder for a living, takes her charge out to play in a Parisian garden square. Sitting on a bench, she starts talking to a stranger, a travelling salesman, and their conversation gradually turns into an exchange of confidences, as she speaks of her desire for a more stab ...Show more
The Lover by Marguerite Duras
$25.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Harper Perennial Modern Classics
A sensational international bestseller, and winner of Frances' coveted Prix Goncourt, 'The Lover' is an unforgettable portrayal of the incandescent relationship between two lovers, and of the hate that slowly tears the girl's family apart. Saigon, 1930s: a poor young French girl meets the elegant son of ...Show more
The Lover (Telling Stories) by Marguerite Duras
$16.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Reprinted as part of the Perennial Collection of Prizewinners, Bestsellers and Modern Classics. A sensational international bestseller, and winner of France's coveted Prix Goncourt, 'The Lover' is an unforgettable portrayal of the incandescent relationship between two lovers, and of the hate that sl ...Show more
The Lover (from US) by Marguerite Duras
$32.50 AUD
Category: Fiction
An international bestseller with more than one million copies in print and a winner of France's Prix Goncourt, The Lover" has been acclaimed by critics all over the world since its first publication in 1984. Set in the pre-war Indochina of Marguerite Duras' childhood, this is the haunting tale of a tumu ...Show more
The Ravishing of Lol Stein by Marguerite Duras
$34.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
Marguerite Duras, one of the most important literary figures in France, wrote this dramatic portrait of obsession during her own detoxification from alcohol abuse. Abandoned by her fiancE during a dance at the Town Beach casino, Lol froze the moment in her mind, replaying it obsessively over the next 10 ...Show more