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Duras

British

/ dyra /

noun

Marguerite , real name Marguerite Donnadieu . 1914–96, French novelist born in Giadinh, Indochina (now in Vietnam). Her works include The Sea Wall (1950), Practicalities (1990), Écrire (1993), and the script for the film Hiroshima mon amour (1960)

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Blanc’s character, lifted from a book by the French author Marguerite Duras, awaits her husband’s return from a Nazi concentration camp in 1945, uncertain whether he is even alive.

From New York Times • Mar. 8, 2024

Lawrence, Doris Lessing, Marguerite Duras and Thomas Hardy, Gornick astutely shows how books are intertwined with ourselves, shifting and evolving over time even as we do.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 7, 2023

"I am Worf, son of Mogh. House of Martok. Son of Sergey, House of Rozhenko. Bane to the Duras family. Slayer of Gowron. I have made some chamomile tea. Do you take sugar?"

From Salon • Mar. 2, 2023

More intellectually and philosophically motivated readers, and certainly anyone who already knows and loves Duras, should plunge right in.

From Washington Post • Dec. 15, 2022

This evening I had a long discourse with Dr. Duras, who is devoted to my interests, and over whom I wield a wondrous power of persuasion.

From Wagner, the Wehr-Wolf by Reynolds, George W. M. (George William MacArthur)

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