by Marguerite Duras · Tusquets Editores S.A. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788472239821
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«L'amant» is the autobiographical novel by Marguerite Duras, published by Tusquets Editores in paperback (144 pages, in Catalan).
The work tells the love story between a fifteen-year-old French girl and a wealthy Chinese merchant in colonial Indochina in the 1930s. With an autobiographical background, the author evokes the intensity of passion and desire, as well as the complex family relationships that marked her youth.
It is part of Tusquets' Andanzas collection (number 15). The novel received the Prix Goncourt in 1984.
For readers of intimate narrative and French literature; the emotional force of the story has won over a very wide audience since its publication.
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.
