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Marguerite Duras

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Gia Định, Cochinchina, French Indochina, Viet Nam

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Literature & Fiction, Cinema, Nonfiction

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Ernest Hemingway, Virginia Woolf, Simone de Beauvoir, Jean-Paul Sartre ...more

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Marguerite Germaine Marie Donnadieu, (4 April 1914 -3 March 1996) known as Marguerite Duras, was a French novelist, playwright, screenwriter, essayist, and experimental filmmaker.

Her script for the film Hiroshima mon amour (1959) earned her a nomination for Best Original Screenplay at the Academy Awards.

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Average rating: 3.68 · 154,967 ratings · 16,754 reviews · 363 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Lover by Marguerite Duras, Maxine Hong Kingston (Introduction), Barbara Bray (Translator) 3.69 avg rating — 79,831 ratings — published 1984 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hiroshima mon amour by Marguerite Duras, Caridad Martínez (Translator) 3.87 avg rating — 7,573 ratings — published 1959 — 104 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Moderato cantabile by Marguerite Duras, Leonharda Gescher (Translator), Walter Maria Guggenheimer (Translator) 3.49 avg rating — 7,221 ratings — 22 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Ravishing of Lol Stein 3.60 avg rating — 6,534 ratings — published 1964 — 92 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Un barrage contre le Pacifique 3.77 avg rating — 5,078 ratings — published 1950 — 86 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The War 3.86 avg rating — 4,666 ratings — published 1985 — 107 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The North China Lover (The Lover, #2) by Marguerite Duras, Leigh Hafrey (Translator) 3.81 avg rating — 4,291 ratings — published 1991	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Writing by Marguerite Duras, Mark Polizzotti (Translator) 3.65 avg rating — 4,394 ratings — published 1993 — 47 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Malady of Death by Marguerite Duras, Barbara Bray (Translator) 3.79 avg rating — 3,766 ratings — published 1982 — 37 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Blue Eyes, Black Hair 3.42 avg rating — 3,434 ratings — published 1986 — 58 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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The Lover (2 books)
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Marguerite Duras,

Leigh Hafrey (Translator)

3.70 avg rating — 84,110 ratings

Boeken van Liefde en Lust (1 book)
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Marguerite Duras,

Maxine Hong Kingston (Introduction),

Barbara Bray (Translator)

3.69 avg rating — 79,819 ratings

Outside (2 books)
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Marguerite Duras

3.56 avg rating — 216 ratings

Œuvres complètes (4 books)
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Marguerite Duras

4.40 avg rating — 10 ratings

Quotes by Marguerite Duras (?)

“Our mothers always remain the strangest, craziest people we've ever met.”
― Marguerite Duras

tags: mothers

3183 likes

“Very early in my life it was too late.”
― Marguerite Duras, The Lover

871 likes

“...as long as nothing happens between them, the memory is cursed with what hasn't happened.”
― Marguerite Duras, Blue Eyes, Black Hair

tags: lust, waiting

589 likes

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April 2020 Short Story/Novella Poll

The Lover by Marguerite Duras, 117 pages, 1984

62 votes, 20.4%

Sonnets From The Portugese by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, 93 pages, 1850

59 votes, 19.4%

The Blue Cross: A Father Brown Mystery by G.K. Chesterton, 30 pages, 1910

47 votes, 15.5%

Hadji Murat by Leo Tolstoy, 130 Pages ??, 1912

41 votes, 13.5%

Desiree's Baby by Kate Chopin, less than 26 pages, 1893

37 votes, 12.2%

Fellow-Townsmen by Thomas Hardy, 88 pages, 1880

30 votes, 9.9%

The Sagas of Ragnar Lodbrok by Anonymous, 80+- pages, 1300's

28 votes, 9.2%

304 total votes

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