The Lover was first published in 1984 and was a major critical and commercial success: it won France's prestigious Prix Goncourt, and has sold almost three million copies and been translated into over 40 languages.
Ultimately, their relationship is doomed because of the disapproval of the girl's family, the opposition of the man's father and the strict conventions of colonial society. The Lover is an autobiographical novel which tells the story of a teenage girl living in French Indochina (where Duras was born) and her encounter with a wealthy young Chinese man.
This clear and detailed 24-page reading guide is structured as follows: It provides a thorough exploration of the book's plot, characters and main themes, as well as an examination of Duras' style and her approach to autobiographical fiction. The clear and concise style makes for easy understanding, providing the perfect opportunity to improve your literary knowledge in no time. Given their saturation and even obsession with the “other,” it is no less surprising that novels written by native French speakers also draw strongly on the ambient political, cultural, and historical contexts.9782806287809 24 EBook Plurilingua Publishing This practical and insightful reading guide offers a complete summary and analysis of The Lover by Marguerite Duras. This is especially true in the novel, whose narratives are often underpinned by direct references to, say, the evolution of Vietnamese society in Tran Van Tung’s Bach-Yên or Pham Van Ky’s Frères de sang (Blood Brothers), or to the wars for independence in Cung Giu Nguyen’s Le Domaine maudit (The Accursed Land) and Ly Thu Ho’s Le Mirage de la paix (The Mirage of Peace). Not surprisingly, this literature draws on existing political, cultural and historical contexts. The emergence of a Vietnamese literature in French was a direct result of this French presence in Viet Nam.
As in other colonies, the official presence of the French in Southeast Asia (1860s to 1954) provoked cultural production from both indigenous and colonial populations. Most readers of Duras know of her birth and childhood in Indochina during the colonial period.
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