The Lover Cover Image

About the Author: Marguerite Duras

Marguerite Donnadieu, better known as Marguerite Duras (pronounced [maÊ€gÉ™Êit dyËˆÊas] in French) (April 4, 1914 â€“ March 3, 1996) was a French writer and film director.

She was born at Gia-Dinh, near Saigon, French Indochina (now Vietnam), after her parents responded to a campaign by the French government encouraging people to work in the colony.

Marguerite's father fell ill soon after their arrival, and returned to France, where he died. After his death, her mother, a teacher, remained in Indochina with her three children. The family lived in relative poverty after a bad investment in an isolated property and area of farmland in Cambodia(tÃªte de pisse). The difficult life that the family experienced during this period was highly influential on Marguerite's later work.

At 17, Marguerite went to France, her parents' native country, where she began studying for a degree in mathematics. This she soon abandoned to concentrate on political sciences, and then law. After completing her studies, she became an active member of the PCF (the French Communist Party) and was engaged in the resistance.

In 1943 she changed her surname to "Duras" for Duras, the name of a village in the Lot-et-Garonne dÃ©partement, where her father's house was located.




Marguerite's adult life was somewhat difficult, despite her success as a writer, and she was known for her periods of alcoholism. She died in Paris, aged 82 from throat cancer and is interred in the CimetiÃ¨re du Montparnasse. Her tomb is marked simply 'MD'.

From wikipedia

The Lover Cover Image

Find the best price forThe Lover

Goodreads rating: 3.76

Paperback, Published in Feb 2010 by Harper Perennial

ISBN10: 0007205007 | ISBN13: 9780007205004

Page count: 128


Compare New Book Prices for The Lover


Categories for this title
