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Marguerite Duras
A Life
by Laure Adler
ISBN: 0226007588
ISBN-13: 9780226007588
Format: Hardcover
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Summary
This comprehensive biography of the internationally influential novelist Duras draws on 16 boxes of previously unavailable personal papers, as well as interviews with Duras's contemporaries. Her troubled childhood, epitomized by problematic relationships with her mother and brothers, her alcoholic tendencies, and her often contradictory political actions in Vichy Paris are elucidated here alongside consideration of her contribution to literary history.
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"Adler admires much of Duras's writing but acknowledges the complexity and unattractiveness of her subject's character, particularly later in life.....This is a full and vigorous biography...." -- Belinda Jack
-- Literary Review
"...Americans may be overwhelmed by the amount of documentation Adler produces....Making matters worse, Anne-Marie Glasheen's uneven translation from the French weighs the narrative down." -- Anna Rohleder
-- New York Times Book Review
"Adler's exhaustive research through archives, diaries, and interviews, her astute and comprehensive familiarity with Duras's mountainous oeuvre, give this biography a depth and complexity equal to its subject. Duras is a morass of contradiction....Adler embraces these contradictions, and indulges her own...." -- Minna Proctor
-- Bookforum
Bibliographic Details
Publisher: Univ of Chicago Pr
Published date: 2000
Size: 6.25 x 9.25 inches
Weight: 1.75 pounds
Pages: 424
Publisher's Notes
Adler, through her exploration of the events central to Duras's career, including her affair with and eventual denunciation of a Nazi collaborator and her childhood in Indochina, reveals Duras as the consummate pragmatist.
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Marguerite Duras: A Life
Adler, Laure
Chicago: University of Chicago, 2000 First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. ( more information)
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Marguerite Duras : A Life
Adler, Laure; Glasheen, Anne Marie (translator)
Chicago, IL, U.S.A.: University of Chicago Press, 2000 Fine, unread copy in a fine jacket. As new.. First Printing of the First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. ( more information)
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Marguerite Duras: A Life
Laure Adler
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Adler, Laure
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Marguerite Duras: A Life
Adler, Laure
Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2000 A nice reading copy. Pages are clean and bright. Binding is tight. Book and jacket show some shelfwear. Jacket has been mylared for protection. One section of black and white photos. Translated from the French by Anne-Marie Glasheen.. First American Edition, 1st Printing. Hard Cover. Good +/Good +. Mylared. ( more information)
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