by Marguerite Duras · Planeta · tapa dura · ISBN 9788408462187
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«El amante» is Marguerite Duras's semi-autobiographical novel, published by Planeta in hardcover (144 pages, in Spanish).
Set in colonial French Indochina, the novel evokes the romance between a fifteen-year-old French adolescent and a wealthy Chinese merchant. Duras blends that passion with the portrait of a torn family and the memory of one who writes from maturity; desire, poverty, and class differences run through the story.
Novel awarded the Prix Goncourt in 1984 and adapted into a movie in 1992. Part of Planeta's International Contemporary Classics collection.
For readers of French literature and autobiographical fiction, especially those seeking twentieth-century classics with a colonial backdrop.
Marguerite Germaine Marie Donnadieu, known as Marguerite Duras, was a French novelist, playwright, screenwriter, essayist, and experimental filmmaker. Her script for the film Hiroshima mon amour (1959) earned her a nomination for Best Original Screenplay at the Academy Awards.
