Marguerite Duras

Jacket description/back: One of the most influential works in the history of cinema, Alain Renais's Hiroshima Mon Amour gathered international acclaim upon its release in 1959 and was awarded the International Critics' Prize at the Cannes Film festival and the New York Film Critics' Award. Ostensibly the story of a …

Il dolore, romanzo autobiografico proveniente a detta dell'autrice Marguerite Duras da un diario rimasto nascosto e dimenticato per anni. Pubblicato in Francia nel 1985, contiene anche i seguenti racconti: Il signor X detto qui Pierre Rabier Albert de Capitales Il miliziano Ter La Duras, durante la seconda guerra …

"A haunting tale of strange and random passion."—New York TimesDisaffected, bored with his career at the French Colonial Ministry (where he has copied out birth and death certificates for eight years), and disgusted by a mistress whose vapid optimism arouses his most violent misogyny, the narrator of The Sailor from …