by Marguerite Duras · ISBN 9788429740035
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«L'Amant» is Marguerite Duras's autobiographical novel, published in 1995 by Edicions 62 in Catalan, with 140 pages.
The story takes place in French Indochina in the 1920s and follows a fifteen-year-old girl who begins a relationship with a wealthy Chinese merchant. Passion and differences of class and race clash with the colonial order and with a dysfunctional family, shaping a story of autobiographical intensity.
It is the first part of the series The Lover. The Catalan translation is by Marta Pessarrodona. It is number 2 in the collection Escriptores del Segle XX. The original work won the Prix Goncourt in 1984.
A work for those who enjoy 20th-century French literature and stories set in the colonial era.
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.
