by Marguerite Duras · Seix Barral · tapa dura · ISBN 9788432222214
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«Hiroshima mon amour» is the novel by Marguerite Duras, published by Seix Barral in hardcover (149 pages, in Spanish).
A French actress arrives in Hiroshima to shoot a movie about peace and meets a Japanese architect. The encounter awakens in her memories of a youthful love during the Second World War. Between the intimate and the collective, a reflection on memory, forgetting and the difficulty of understanding others' suffering.
Published in 1984, it belongs to the collection «Obras maestras de la literatura contemporánea» (no. 58), with a translation by Caridad Martínez.
For readers of twentieth-century French literature and for those who want to discover the text that gave rise to the eponymous movie by Alain Resnais.
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.
