by Marguerite Duras · Nathan · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782707306951
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«L'Amant» is the autobiographical novel by Marguerite Duras, published by Nathan in paperback (142 pages, in French).
Set in French Indochina in the 1930s, a French teenager meets a wealthy Chinese man on a ferry on the Mekong River. The clandestine relationship, marked by class difference and the scandal of colonial society, gives rise to a story of desire, memory and silences told in sober prose.
The work won the Prix Goncourt in 1984 and has been translated into 35 countries.
It is a work recommended for readers of French literature and for students of French who want to read a 20th-century classic in its original language.
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.
