by Marguerite Duras · Gallimard Education · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782070368822
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«Un barrage contre le Pacifique» is the novel by Marguerite Duras, published by Gallimard in paperback (364 pages, in French).
The action takes place in French Indochina, where a widow and her children, Joseph and Suzanne, struggle to survive on a concession that the ocean floods every year. They build a dike to protect their crops, but the sea and the crabs destroy it. The novel addresses poverty, social injustice, and colonial exploitation.
The novel was originally published in 1950; the present edition is from 1978 and corresponds to number 882 of the Folio collection.
For readers of French fiction and students of French, as well as for those seeking twentieth-century classics.
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.
