Emily L . by Marguerite Duras
Emily L . by Marguerite Duras. Translated by Barbara Bray. 1989 Pantheon, first U.S. edition, 112 pages. Duras was a celebrated French novelist, playwright, and writer, well-known for her novel The Lover, a story of a teenager falling in love with an older Chinese man. In her New York Times obituary: "The mysteries of love and sex consumed her, but she had no room for sentimentality in her works, or indeed, in her life." In a review for Emily L. in the Los Angeles Times "What Duras has most neatly and cleverly accomplished in writing 'Emily L.' is a demonstration of how she--an established and well-regarded fiction writer--transforms real experience (that is, the thoughts, feelings, perceptions and memories written about in the non-traditional, autobiographical frame of the book) into fiction (the traditional love story about the aging English couple)."
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"It began with the fear."
Emily L . by Marguerite Duras. Translated by Barbara Bray. 1989 Pantheon, first U.S. edition, 112 pages. Duras was a celebrated French novelist, playwright, and writer, well-known for her novel The Lover, a story of a teenager falling in love with an older Chinese man. In her New York Times obituary: "The mysteries of love and sex consumed her, but she had no room for sentimentality in her works, or indeed, in her life." In a review for Emily L. in the Los Angeles Times "What Duras has most neatly and cleverly accomplished in writing 'Emily L.' is a demonstration of how she--an established and well-regarded fiction writer--transforms real experience (that is, the thoughts, feelings, perceptions and memories written about in the non-traditional, autobiographical frame of the book) into fiction (the traditional love story about the aging English couple)."
Condition: Jacket in good condition, browning, price sticker on front flap, book in good condition, some wear
"It began with the fear."