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The War
The War: A Memoir | Marguerite Duras
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The extraordinary pages of The War, written in 1944 but finished in 1985, form a totally new image of the heroine of The Lover and, through her, of Paris during the Nazi occupation and the first months of liberation. Married and living in Paris, part of a resistance network headed by Francois Mitterand, Duras is swept up in the turmoil of the period. She tells of nursing her starving husband back to life on his return from Bergen-Belsen, interrogating a suspected collaborator, and playing a game of cat and mouse with a Gestapo officer who is attracted to her. The result is a book as moving as it is harrowing--perhaps Duras's finest.
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La douleur | Marguerite Duras
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This a painful and emotional read. Fear, pain, avoidance, faith, hope all gathered into this 50 pages of writing. Duras. 40 years after the prisoners, deported and soldiers arrive in Paris as Berlin burns is blunt but poignant. Luminous with black holes of despair. Sentences where the best of people is overshadowed by the worst, by indifference and the will to move on and forget. #readinginFrenchJuly

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The War: A Memoir | Marguerite Duras
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This is hard to read especially now. In this time. Duras waits for her deported lover to come back along with the families of soldiers. The pain of the waiting, the pain of the news, the pain of what you imagine. Also the indifference of the administrative staff to the returning soldiers, deported, prisoners, who want to move on, to forget. The English title is deceptive. Douleur aka Pain is better. Stage 21, the end of the Tour.

writerlibrarian “Ici l'espoir est entier, la douleur est implantée dans l‘espoir. Parfois je m‘étonne de ne pas mourir : une lame glacée enfoncée profond dans la chair vivante, de nuit, de jour et on survit.”
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The War: A Memoir | Marguerite Duras
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BarbaraTheBibliophage It‘s always your call. For me, I‘d want the soldiering aspect of it to be fairly strong in order to count it. But it‘s really up to you! 5y
writerlibrarian @BarbaraTheBibliophage it's soldiers coming back to Paris. The waiting of the family to see if they are still alive, it's Duras waiting for her lover political prisoner to come back. Not one soldier in particular but men coming back, the pain coming from them, their family in contrast with the French women soldiers from the bourgeoisie aka the right who are in charge of the people coming back and their desire to move on and forget. 5y
BarbaraTheBibliophage Interesting! 👍🏻🇫🇷 5y
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