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The Lover Author: [France] Marguerite Duras Publisher: Shanghai Translation Publishing House
The Lover Author: [France] Marguerite Duras Publisher: Shanghai Translation Publishing House
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Introduction · · · · · ·
"I read The Lover translated by Mr. Wang Daoqian, and I learned what kind of literary realm a novel can reach."
——Wang Xiaobo
★ The classic novel that influenced Wang Xiaobo's life, Wang Daoqian's classic translation
★ Cover created by emerging artist CiCi Suen × Full-color canvas print
★ Duras's masterpiece, winner of the Goncourt Prize, one of the top ten Goncourt Prize novels of the past century selected by Figaro Magazine
★ About a girl's growth and transformation, love and writing
★ The classic film "The Lover", Tony Leung Ka Fai plays the leading role
★ This book also includes the novella "Dark Hair and Blue Eyes", Wang Xiaobo's "My Inheritance", and the introductory article "Why Are People Not Afraid of Duras?"
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Contents:
I am old. One day, in the lobby of a public place, a man came up to me. He took the initiative to introduce himself and said to me: "I know you and will always remember you. At that time, you were still very young and everyone said you were beautiful. Now, I come to tell you that I think you are more beautiful now than when you were young. At that time, you were a young woman. Compared with your appearance then, I love your current ravaged face more."
That year, when I was fifteen and a half, I met my lover on the Mekong River. It was a love story that was reckless but destined to end in vain...
About the Author · · · · · ·
Marguerite Duras (1914-1996) is the most famous contemporary French novelist, playwright and film artist. She was born in Vietnam on April 4, 1914. Both her parents were primary school teachers. She lost her father at the age of four. The suffering of her childhood and the tragic fate of her mother affected her life.
Duras began her literary career with the novel The Shameless (1943). Her works are not only rich in content and diverse in genre, but also pay special attention to style, with a novel and unique style. Her early novel The Dam Against the Pacific (1950) fully reflects the poverty of her childhood, and works such as The Complaint of the Piano (1958) are good at breaking the traditional narrative mode and integrating fiction with reality, which made her once considered a writer of the New Novel School. In fact, her novels are only similar to the New Novel in terms of technique, focusing on the poetic and musical nature of the style, but are very different in conception. She depicts the opposition between the rich and the poor and human desires in her works, exposing social reality in a unique way. Finally, Duras won the Goncourt Prize, the highest literary award in France, with The Lover in 1984.
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