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| Title | : | The War |
| Author | : | Marguerite Duras |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 192 pages |
| Published | : | August 1st 1994 by The New Press (first published 1985) |
| Categories | : | Nonfiction. Cultural. France. Autobiography. Memoir. History. War |
Marguerite Duras
Paperback | Pages: 192 pages Rating: 3.85 | 2153 Users | 160 Reviews
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One of France's greatest novelists offers a remarkable diary of the Nazi occupation of Paris during World War II and of its eventual liberation by the Allies. Celebrating the 50th anniversary of the liberation, this extraordinary diary by the author of The Lover is "a haunting portrait of a time and place" (New York Times).Written in 1944, and first published in 1985, Duras's riveting account of life in Paris during the Nazi occupation and the first few months of liberation depicts the harrowing realities of World War II-era France "with a rich conviction enhanced by [a] spare, almost arid, technique" (Julian Barnes, The Washington Post Book World). Duras, by then married and part of a French resistance network headed by François Mitterand, tells of nursing her starving husband back to health after his return from Bergen-Belsen, interrogating a suspected collaborator, and playing a game of cat and mouse with a Gestapo officer who was attracted to her. The result is "more than one woman's diary...[it is] a haunting portrait of a time and a place and also a state of mind" (The New York Times).
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| Original Title: | La Douleur |
| ISBN: | 1565842219 (ISBN13: 9781565842212) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Setting: | Paris(France) |
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Ratings: 3.85 From 2153 Users | 160 ReviewsEvaluate About Books The War
This is the third time I have read a book by Duras and said it is the best book I have ever read. I am astonished and destroyed. Despite the fact that the English publishers did everything in their power to make no one want to read it, by changing the title shamelessly in order to fit into the memoirs market. The real title should be translated--so I am told--Pain or Suffering. I didn't like the story from her communist period. I also had some problems with the following one, about the smallEasy to read but harrowing - Duras claims to have based these stories on some diaries she found in her attic but she has obviously modified them and made them less raw and more literary. The most harrowing thing about the whole collection is the protagonist's behaviour when she has the opportunity to use violence herself. She does so, and without scruples. As her husband wrote, people do not change and do not learn from experience.
Brutal truths told in beautiful poetic prose. This memoir is a must-read for anyone with any sort of an opinion on war. Duras illustrates the irremediable pain of war for those left at home, waiting: "You don't exist any more in comparison with his waiting. More images pass through your head than there are on all the roads in Germany. Bursts of machine guns fire every minute inside your head. And yet you're still there, the bullets aren't fatal. Shot in transit. Dead with an empty stomach. His
"Not for a second do I see the need to be brave. Perhaps being brave is my form of cowardice."I just realized that I have not reviewed this book yet.Part of the reason for my lapse is that there is never anything to say about war. About the Holocaust. About torture. About death.Or rather, there is too much to say that I never know where to begin.Besides Marguerite said it all already in this book.Which is in itself impressive. She says it all in here without falling into the typical trappings of
I don't read memoirs often, but picked up this book last year when cleaning out my in-laws house. Duras writes of her personal experiences at the end of World War II. In one lengthy section, she describes the agony of not knowing whether her husband has been killed in a German death camp. In two other stories, she recounts stories about the resistance. In one, she is helping them focus on a German policeman who works at rounding up her countrymen. In the other, members of the resistance
Marguerite Duras is a strong woman who lived through WWII, these short stories are autobiographical; She writes about nursing her first husband after he got back from the camps in one, her involvement in the Paris restitance, and her nazi admirer in others. She writes in a simple way that is gripping and faces her readers with the choices she had to make, the tension she lived with in these extreme situations between life and death, resistance and occupation, loved ones and enemies... Her tales
I'm feeling sort of odd about this. It was my introduction to Marguerite Duras and I think it ought not to have been. On the other hand, I read it because I wanted some foreknowledge and perspective and this surely gave it to me.The first 50 pages or so are a diary of the end of the war in Paris and her not knowing whether her husband survived. Waiting. Waiting. I tried to remind myself it was a diary, yet written so powerfully I had tears running down my cheeks in the first 10 pages.The next
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