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The Easy Life

A Novel

by Marguerite Duras ...

Translated by Olivia Baes, Emma Ramadan ...

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 by. After witnessing a series of tragedies on her family farm, she alternates between intense ... Read more

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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 by. After witnessing a series of tragedies on her family farm, she alternates between intense
... Read more
The Lover

by Marguerite Duras ...

An international best-seller 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 prewar Indochina of Marguerite Duras's childhood, this is the haunting tale of a tumultuous affair between an adolescent French girl and her Chinese lover. In spare yet luminous ... Read more

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An international best-seller 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 prewar Indochina of Marguerite Duras's childhood, this is the haunting tale of a tumultuous affair between an adolescent French girl and her Chinese lover. In spare yet luminous
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The Malady of Death

by Marguerite Duras ...

"[An] erotic, existential mystery . . . part philosophical meditation, part fantasy" from the Prix Goncourt-winning author of The Lover ( The Guardian).A man hires a woman to spend several weeks with him by the sea. The woman is no one in particular, a "she," a warm, moist body with a beating heart—the enigma of Other. Skilled in the mechanics of sex, he desires through her to penetrate a ... Read more

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"[An] erotic, existential mystery . . . part philosophical meditation, part fantasy" from the Prix Goncourt-winning author of The Lover ( The Guardian).A man hires a woman to spend several weeks with him by the sea. The woman is no one in particular, a "she," a warm, moist body with a beating heart—the enigma of Other. Skilled in the mechanics of sex, he desires through her to penetrate a
... Read more
Four Novels

The Square, Moderato Cantabile, 10:30 on a Summer Night, The Afternoon of Mr. Andesmas

by Marguerite Duras ...

A collection of four short novels by the renowned, Prix Goncourt–winning author of The Lover.Long acknowledged as one of the most important literary figures in France, Marguerite Duras has garnered worldwide praise for her work, from the acclaimed screenplay Hiroshima Mon Amour to the best-selling novel The Lover.In these four short novels, Duras demonstrates her remarkable ability to create an ... Read more

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A collection of four short novels by the renowned, Prix Goncourt–winning author of The Lover.Long acknowledged as one of the most important literary figures in France, Marguerite Duras has garnered worldwide praise for her work, from the acclaimed screenplay Hiroshima Mon Amour to the best-selling novel The Lover.In these four short novels, Duras demonstrates her remarkable ability to create an
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India Song

by Marguerite Duras ...

Translated by Barbara Bray ...

“Unusual and magnificent . . . a shock to received ideas delivered by a dramatist of genius.” —Harold HobsonUnseen voices narrate this story of the affair between the haunting Anne-Marie Stretter and the disgraced French vice-consul in Làhore. In the India of 1937, with the smell of laurels and leprosy permeating the air, the characters perform a dance of doomed love to the strains of a dying ... Read more

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“Unusual and magnificent . . . a shock to received ideas delivered by a dramatist of genius.” —Harold HobsonUnseen voices narrate this story of the affair between the haunting Anne-Marie Stretter and the disgraced French vice-consul in Làhore. In the India of 1937, with the smell of laurels and leprosy permeating the air, the characters perform a dance of doomed love to the strains of a dying
... Read more
Abahn Sabana David

by Marguerite Duras ...

Translated by Kazim Ali ...

Similar in tone to a Beckett play, the characters of this novel spend the night discussing violence, communism, and revolution. ... Read more

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Similar in tone to a Beckett play, the characters of this novel spend the night discussing violence, communism, and revolution.
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Destroy, She Said

A Novel

by Marguerite Duras ...

In this classic novel by the bestselling author of The Lover, erotic intrigue masks a chillingly deceptive form of madness.Elisabeth Alione is convalescing in a hotel in rural France when she meets two men and another woman. The sophisticated dalliance among the four serves to obscure an underlying violence, which, when the curtain of civilization is drawn aside, reveals in her fellow guests a ... Read more

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In this classic novel by the bestselling author of The Lover, erotic intrigue masks a chillingly deceptive form of madness.Elisabeth Alione is convalescing in a hotel in rural France when she meets two men and another woman. The sophisticated dalliance among the four serves to obscure an underlying violence, which, when the curtain of civilization is drawn aside, reveals in her fellow guests a
... Read more
Six Films

by Marguerite Duras ...

Translated by Olivia Baes, Emma Ramadan ...

Series series Inpatient Press / Mercurial Editions
The English-language debut of a beautiful and beguiling cycle of experimental texts by the legendary Marguerite Duras.In the late 1970s, Marguerite Duras embarked on an experimental journey to expand the boundaries of writing and film. For Duras, writing need not be text on a page nor cinema merely images on a screen. Six Films is the result of her efforts to redefine the two arts in order to ... Read more

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The English-language debut of a beautiful and beguiling cycle of experimental texts by the legendary Marguerite Duras.In the late 1970s, Marguerite Duras embarked on an experimental journey to expand the boundaries of writing and film. For Duras, writing need not be text on a page nor cinema merely images on a screen. Six Films is the result of her efforts to redefine the two arts in order to
... Read more
Hiroshima Mon Amour

A Screenplay

by Marguerite Duras ...

The award-winning screenplay for the classic film the New York Post hailed as "overwhelming . . . a motion picture landmark."One of the most influential works in the history of cinema, Alain Renais's Hiroshima Mon Amour gathered international acclaim upon its release in 1959 and was awarded the International Critics' Prize at the Cannes Film festival and the New York Film Critics' Award. ... Read more

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The award-winning screenplay for the classic film the New York Post hailed as "overwhelming . . . a motion picture landmark."One of the most influential works in the history of cinema, Alain Renais's Hiroshima Mon Amour gathered international acclaim upon its release in 1959 and was awarded the International Critics' Prize at the Cannes Film festival and the New York Film Critics' Award.
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The Suspended Passion

Interviews

by Marguerite Duras ...

Translated by Chris Turner ...

Series series 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, opinions, life, and relationships.The interviews that make up the book were conducted in 1987, when ... Read more

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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, opinions, life, and relationships.The interviews that make up the book were conducted in 1987, when
... Read more
Yann Andrea Steiner

by Marguerite Duras ...

Translated by Mark Polizzotti ...

Dedicated to Duras’ companion with whom she spent her last decade of life, Yann Andréa Steiner is a haunting dance between two parallel stories of love and solitude: the love between Duras and the young Yann Andréa and a seaside romance observed – or imagined – by the narrator between a camp counselor and an orphaned camper, a Holocaust survivor who witnessed his sister’s murder at the hands of a ... Read more

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Dedicated to Duras’ companion with whom she spent her last decade of life, Yann Andréa Steiner is a haunting dance between two parallel stories of love and solitude: the love between Duras and the young Yann Andréa and a seaside romance observed – or imagined – by the narrator between a camp counselor and an orphaned camper, a Holocaust survivor who witnessed his sister’s murder at the hands of a
... Read more
Writing

by Marguerite Duras ...

Translated by Mark Polizzotti ...

Writing, one of Marguerite Duras’s last works, is a meditation on the process of writing and on her need for solitude in order to do it. In the five short pieces collected in this volume, she explores experiences that had an emotional impact on her and that inspired her to write. These vary from the death of a pilot in World War II, to the death of a fly, to an art exhibition. Two of the pieces ... Read more

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Writing, one of Marguerite Duras’s last works, is a meditation on the process of writing and on her need for solitude in order to do it. In the five short pieces collected in this volume, she explores experiences that had an emotional impact on her and that inspired her to write. These vary from the death of a pilot in World War II, to the death of a fly, to an art exhibition. Two of the pieces
... Read more