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Marguerite Duras

Born

in Gia Định, Cochinchina, French Indochina, Viet Nam

April 04, 1914

Died

March 03, 1996

Genre

Literature & Fiction, Cinema, Nonfiction

Influences

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

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Marguerite Germaine Marie Donnadieu , 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: 3.69 · 144,911 ratings · 14,967 reviews · 401 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Lover by Marguerite Duras, Maxine Hong Kingston (Introduction), Barbara Bray (Translator) 3.70 avg rating — 74,088 ratings — published 1984 — 299 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 — 7,244 ratings — published 1959 — 4 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 3.49 avg rating — 6,917 ratings — published 1958 — 132 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 — 6,220 ratings — published 1964 — 87 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 — 4,804 ratings — published 1950 — 16 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 — 4,426 ratings — published 1985 — 7 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) 3.80 avg rating — 4,126 ratings — published 1991 — 68 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
	Writing by Marguerite Duras, Mark Polizzotti (Translator) 3.66 avg rating — 4,161 ratings — published 1993 — 5 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 — 3,519 ratings — published 1982 — 36 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 3.43 avg rating — 3,275 ratings — published 1986 — 2 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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Series by Marguerite Duras

The Lover (2 books)
by

Marguerite Duras,

Leigh Hafrey (Translator)

3.71 avg rating — 78,186 ratings

Boeken van Liefde en Lust (1 book)
by

Marguerite Duras,

Maxine Hong Kingston (Introduction),

Barbara Bray (Translator)

3.70 avg rating — 74,060 ratings

Outside (2 books)
by

Marguerite Duras

3.65 avg rating — 187 ratings

Œuvres complètes (4 books)
by

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

855 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

586 likes

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Polls

April 2020 Short Story/Novella Poll

The Lover by Marguerite Duras, 117 pages, 1984

63 votes, 20.6%

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

60 votes, 19.6%

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

47 votes, 15.4%

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

41 votes, 13.4%

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

37 votes, 12.1%

Fellow-Townsmen by Thomas Hardy, 88 pages, 1880

30 votes, 9.8%

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

28 votes, 9.2%

306 total votes

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