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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

They take issues that I quote Duras and Pasolini.

From Salon • Jan. 9, 2023

Its obsessive characters, abrupt transitions, abstract narrative and hyper-naturalistic attention to detail also recall the French nouvelle romans of Marguerite Duras and Alain Robbe-Grillet.

From New York Times • Jan. 4, 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

As Beaumarchais demanded nothing better, he hastened to offer to the Duke of Duras the same lesson in bookkeeping which he had vainly offered to the comedians....

From Beaumarchais and the War of American Independence by Kite, Elizabeth S.

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