Social Reading of the Lover by Marguerite Duras
In this public reading of the novelistic memoir The Lover by Marguerite Duras Protected content a modernist story of sexual coming of age set against the backdrop of French colonial Vietnam,
we gather around what the text holds, its contradictions, its emotional undercurrents and what it leaves behind.
The Lover traces a young girl's entanglement in a relationship shaped by desire, power and memory. Told in fragments that move between past and present, it is a work that sits in its tensions, its silences and what remains unresolved as it reveals the intimacies and intricacies of a clandestine romance between a pubescent girl from a financially strapped French family and an older, wealthy Chinese-Vietnamese man.
It is the most accessible and by far the most popular of Duras’s works, not the least because its interracial eroticism and exotic locale lent itself to film director Jean-Jacques Annaud’s movie version in Protected content
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