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slick with sweat, thick with hate-and I love it

The Lover by Marguerite Duras

March 2, 2022 by andtheIToldYouSos 2 Comments

Somehow, this incredible little novella flew completely under my radar until last year. Luckily, the folks over at Lit Hub are absolutely obsessed, and I was unable to remain in the dark for much longer. When it’s in a book I don’t think it’ll hurt any more …exist any more. One of the things writing does is wipe things out. Replace them. While not entirely an “autobiography”, Duras tells the tale of a very young girl who grew up in an unstable household in French-colonized […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Fiction Tagged With: 20th Century, Colonists, coming-of-age, desire, family, French language, french literature, hate, Hiroshima mon Amour, Lit Hub, lust, marguerite duras, Maxine Hong Kingston, Race, semi-autobiographical, Vietnam

andtheIToldYouSos's CBR14 Review No:14 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Fiction · Tags: 20th Century, Colonists, coming-of-age, desire, family, French language, french literature, hate, Hiroshima mon Amour, Lit Hub, lust, marguerite duras, Maxine Hong Kingston, Race, semi-autobiographical, Vietnam ·
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