by Marguerite Duras · C. de Lectores Barcelona · tapa dura · ISBN 9788422618959
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«El amante» is the novel by French writer Marguerite Duras, published by Círculo de Lectores in hardcover (154 pages, in Spanish).
Autobiographical and set in colonial Indochina, it tells the story of a fifteen-year-old French girl, poor and beautiful, and her relationship with a wealthy twenty-six-year-old Chinese merchant. Around that forbidden love, Duras evokes the intensity of desire, memory, and a family torn between love and hate.
Published in 1984 as «L'Amant», it won the Prix Goncourt. Spanish edition with translation by Ana María Moix and introduction by Rafael Conte.
For readers of twentieth-century French literature and autobiographical tales of passion and memory.
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.
