North China Lover: A Memoir of Struggle in the Cause of Equal Rights | 
pickThere might be some repetition in Duras‘ book, but I saw it like choruses to a song. As for the rest, it was beautifully written- cinematic as images and movement and silences hang together in something somehow greater than the parts plays out offscreen. Something that Duras plays out in your heart.
so-sofirst 87 pages are like nabokov‘s screenplay of Lolita. a salacious, pulp-y rendition of the original. the child running across the street and kissing the limousine window is lo pulling the lipstick tube out of her bikini waistband.
after the child‘s dance with helene lagonelle, there‘s nothing more. 150 pages of incessant laughing and crying.
3 stars
