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  <title><![CDATA[Destroy, She Said/Destruction and Language: An Interview With Marguerite Duras]]></title>
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  <default_description>&lt;div&gt;In this classic novel by the best-selling author of The Lover, erotic intrigue masks a chillingly deceptive form of madness. Elisabeth Alione is convalescing in a hotel in rural France when she meets two men and another woman. The sophisticated dalliance among the four serves to obscure an underlying violence, which, when the curtain of civilization is drawn aside, reveals in her fellow guests a very contemporary, perhaps even new, form of insanity. Like many of Duras's novels, Destroy, She Said owes much to cinema, displaying a skillful interplay of dialogue and description. There are recurring moods and motifs from the Duras repertoire: eroticism, lassitude, stifled desire, a beautiful woman, a mysterious forest, a desolate provincial hotel. Included in this volume is an in-depth interview with Duras by Jacques Rivette and Jean Narboni.&lt;/div&gt;</default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">1969</original_publication_year>
  <original_title>Destroy, She Said/Destruction and Language: An Interview With Marguerite Duras</original_title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Marguerite Duras]]></name>
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  <date_added>Sat Mar 31 00:41:52 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Mar 31 01:03:36 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[For me Duras is a long poem, in different books as different verses. <br/>تصور می کنم دوراس را هر زنی باید بخواند، و هر مردی. دوراس یک &quot;سیمون دو بوار&quot; دیگری ست، به همان بی پروایی، صلابت و قدرت، ام...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/505874">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="25117736">
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    <name><![CDATA[Heather]]></name>
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  <read_at>Thu May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Sun Jun 22 09:04:12 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Jun 22 09:10:00 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Hmm, I kinda think Duras went a little too far in the spare, nonlinear direction with this one.  It's written to be a play and maybe it would have had more impact if I had experienced it in that way.  Duras is one of my favorite authors and I found some of the images in this book creepily enticing, ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/25117736">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="3133380">
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    <name><![CDATA[Masha]]></name>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[Frenchies and their sycophants]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Jul 16 10:14:09 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Sep 07 13:46:47 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I am borrowing this from Dodie. There is no interview in the one I'm borrowing - no wait there is but it's all about the movie, no insight into this frustrating, gendered, ultra-French little roman. I pulled it off the shelf at her house and got engrossed, although usually I can't stand Duras. Yeah ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3133380">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="17218027">
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  <date_added>Fri Mar 07 01:23:58 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Mar 07 01:23:58 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[The interview in the second part of the book is particularly opaque. Maybe it's a translation problem, maybe I'm not artsy enough to understand it, or maybe the author and her interviewers were just full of shit.]]></body>
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</review>
    <review id="51486274">
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    <name><![CDATA[april violet]]></name>
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  <read_at>Sat May 30 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Sat May 30 13:02:28 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Duras wanted to write a story free of style that can be read in various ways. Her effort was admirable, but the result made my eyes glaze over. <em>Hiroshima Mon Amour</em> was a much better read.]]></body>
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    <review id="22040891">
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  <date_added>Sun May 11 16:30:13 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun May 11 16:32:36 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[For all her skill and daring as a postmodernist, Duras doesn't get the kind of attention she should.  Possibly because she is a lady.  Anyway, this is her best novel, I think, a real killer.]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22040891]]></url>
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    <review id="26028366">
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      <rating>3</rating>
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  <read_at>Sun Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Tue Jul 01 11:26:13 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I think I will give this more stars after I read it a few more times and can begin to grasp the genius of Duras better.]]></body>
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    <review id="27782128">
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  <date_updated>Sun Jul 20 09:59:09 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[i think i may have missed something, gotten lost in translation. i usually love everything by this author. ]]></body>
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    <review id="24046631">
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  <read_at>Mon Jun 16 06:20:11 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I've actually got a really old version without the interview, so I'm just reading the novel.]]></body>
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    <review id="24672505">
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    <name><![CDATA[Santh]]></name>
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  <date_added>Mon Jun 16 19:34:58 -0700 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[sumpah, sama sekali nggak ngerti baca buku ini<br/>hiks<br/>hiks<br/><br/>^_^]]></body>
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    <review id="1465790">
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    <name><![CDATA[Ofelia]]></name>
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      <rating>5</rating>
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  <read_at>Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Marguerite Duras almost never uses similies or metaphors.]]></body>
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    <review id="22018250">
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  <read_at>Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1995</read_at>
  <date_added>Sun May 11 08:50:13 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun May 11 08:51:01 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[no time to review, but simply recommend it. super.]]></body>
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