by Marguerite Duras · Unidad Editorial - El Mundo · tapa dura · ISBN 9788481302110
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«Moderato cantabile» is the short novel by Marguerite Duras, published by Unidad Editorial - El Mundo in hardcover (92 pages, in Spanish).
Anne Desbaresdes, a young, well-off woman, is shocked after witnessing the murder of a stranger in a café. Fascinated by the event, she returns again and again to the place and strikes up a strange relationship with a man who was also there. Over glasses of wine and questions, both enter a game of seduction and danger where desire and death intertwine.
With a prologue by Cristina Peri Rossi. This 1999 edition belongs to the 'Las 100 joyas del milenio' collection from El Mundo, volume 85. Work originally published in 1958.
For readers of twentieth-century French literature and for those completing the 'Las 100 joyas del milenio' collection.
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.
