false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1169435381m/40464.jpg 40464 4 <div>A man hires a woman to spend several weeks with him by the sea. The woman is no one in particular, a "she," a warm, moist body with a beating heart-the enigma of Other. Skilled in the mechanics of sex, he desires through her to penetrate a different mystery: he wants to learn love. It isn't a matter of will, she tells him. Still, he wants to learn to try . . .This beautifully wrought erotic novel is an extended haiku on the meaning of love, "perhaps a sudden lapse in the logic of the universe," and of its absence, "the malady of death." "The whole tragedy of the inability to love is in this work, thanks to Duras' unparalleled art of reinventing the most familiar words, of weighing their meaning." - Le Monde; "Deceptively simple and Racinian in its purity, condensed to the essential." - Translation Review. </div> 219941 1986 The Malady of Death total:238|5:83|4:87|3:46|2:19|1:3| 238 942 309 21 5 1 false false Thu Apr 16 13:40:12 -0700 2009 Sat Apr 18 18:41:10 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed Jul 30 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Jul 30 11:28:08 -0700 2008 Wed Jul 30 13:42:24 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri Jun 13 12:51:49 -0700 2008 Fri Jun 13 12:53:24 -0700 2008 jorgerueda.blogspot.com)

Dos años después de haber publicado "El hombre sentado en el pasillo" La Duras publicó El mal de la muerte: Un hombre 'muerto' incapaz de amar alquila una mujer para conocer, probar y quizá acostumbrarse a su tibia ...more...]]> 3 0 false false Sat Mar 31 01:05:44 -0700 2007 Sat Mar 31 01:06:00 -0700 2007 تصور می کنم دوراس را هر زنی باید بخواند، و هر مردی. دوراس یک "سیمون دو بوار" دیگری ست، به همان بی پروایی، صلابت و قدرت، ام...more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Sep 17 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Sep 17 06:43:13 -0700 2008 Wed Sep 17 06:44:00 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1999 Wed Jul 01 19:16:23 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 01 19:21:08 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Thu Sep 03 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 03 20:25:27 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 03 20:33:08 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Sun Mar 16 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Mar 16 17:39:08 -0700 2008 Wed Mar 19 11:42:14 -0700 2008
This sparse story is about a man who cannot love. He hires a woman to stay with him for a week, and he tries to find love through her body. She sees through him, and tells him he has "the malady of death", the lack of love. ...more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Aug 13 18:39:47 -0700 2007 Mon Aug 13 18:47:29 -0700 2007 more...]]> 0 0 false false Mon Nov 23 08:34:33 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 23 08:35:40 -0800 2009 5 0 false false Wed Feb 20 19:57:07 -0800 2008 Sun Jun 08 18:38:03 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005 Sun Dec 09 10:54:57 -0800 2007 Sun Dec 09 11:02:13 -0800 2007 more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Jun 11 08:05:42 -0700 2007 Mon Jun 11 08:12:15 -0700 2007 5 0 false false Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2001 Sun Jul 22 12:02:59 -0700 2007 Sun Jul 22 12:05:40 -0700 2007 2 0 false false Thu Feb 01 22:57:26 -0800 2007 Mon Feb 05 13:09:37 -0800 2007 5 0 false false Mon Aug 20 17:13:48 -0700 2007 Thu Aug 23 18:55:49 -0700 2007 5 0 false false Mon Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2002 Sun Jan 21 19:09:45 -0800 2007 Sun Jan 21 19:14:36 -0800 2007 5 0 false false Mon Jul 02 09:40:01 -0700 2007 Mon Jul 02 09:40:58 -0700 2007 4 0 false false Mon Jul 14 14:00:41 -0700 2008 Mon Jul 14 14:00:55 -0700 2008 4 0 false false Sun Feb 24 12:00:26 -0800 2008 Sun Mar 02 11:56:09 -0800 2008 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=40464