The Lover

by Marguerite Duras | Literature & Fiction |
ISBN: 0060970405 Global Overview for this book
Registered by Vasha of Ithaca, New York USA on 5/24/2010
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Journal Entry 1 by Vasha from Ithaca, New York USA on Monday, May 24, 2010
It is said old loves can haunt us. The Lover creates this feeling through an atmosphere of shadows, veils, floating memories that came from — was it this boat trip or the last one? from age eight or twelve or thirty? In the end it doesn't matter, for the experience is now embedded, a distinct yet inseparable part of the personality. Marguerite Duras mines her own past to tell The Lover, the story of an adolescent girl growing up in Indochina during the 1930s. The girl is wayward, rebellious; one day, returning to school on the ferry, dressed in gold lamé shoes, a man's hat and a silk dress, she encounters the son of a Chinese millionaire. Soon they are involved in the first affair of her life, one she claims has no basis in love for her. He can never marry her — his father has refused — and she says she will leave without regrets. But is that possible? Years later she looks back. By presenting ideas and memories in paragraphs that are literally isolated yet constantly overlapping, The Lover creates a misty world of connections made by emotion rather than logic or chronology, a feeling that lingers after the book itself is closed. — From 500 Great Books by Women; review by Erica Bauermeister

Journal Entry 2 by Vasha at GreenStar Cooperative Market, 701 West Buffalo St. in Ithaca, New York USA on Tuesday, September 21, 2010

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Journal Entry 3 by msiv at Ithaca, New York USA on Wednesday, October 13, 2010
On October 9, I was camping with my boyfriend in Ithaca, NY. I found THE LOVER on a bench in a park at night. There was a note on the front that read "TAKE AND READ!"... So, I did. I took the book home to New Jersey and finished reading it in a few days.

I really did not expect to like it. Judging by the title, I expected it to be some sort of weird romance novel, which I'm not into. But I gave it a shot and it actually turned out to be quite good. It was pleasant.

I haven't decided on where I'm going to leave it yet.

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