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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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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

Polizzotti, who has made a specialty of translating concise, compressed French novels by Patrick Modiano, Marguerite Duras and now Vuillard, thinks there is an essential disconnect between two different approaches of writing about history.

From New York Times • Apr. 24, 2023

Malanda says Diop encouraged her to speak as if she was reading Marguerite Duras.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 12, 2023

They take issues that I quote Duras and Pasolini.

From Salon • Jan. 9, 2023

That document contained the decision of his highness in respect to the memorial which she had privately forwarded to him in accordance with the advice given her a few days previously by Dr. Duras.

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

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