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The Suspended Passion: Interviews (The French List)
The Suspended Passion Interviews - The French List Author:Marguerite Duras A controversial figure of the postwar French literary and cultural scene, Marguerite Duras has exerted a powerful hold on readers around the world. This volume of interviews?hailed on its French publication as Duras?s ?secret confession??offers readers a rich vein of new insight into her work, opinions, life, and relationships. — The interviews t... more »hat make up the book were conducted in 1987, when Italian journalist Leopoldina Pallotta della Torre met the seventy-three-year-old Duras at her Paris flat and convinced her to sit for a series of conversations. The resulting book was published in Italian in 1989, but it somehow failed to attract a French publisher, and it was quickly forgotten. Nearly a quarter of a century later, however, the book was rediscovered and translated into French, and, it has now become a sensation. In its revealing pages, Duras speaks with extraordinary freedom about her life as a writer, her relationship to cinema, her friendship with Mitterand , her love of Chekhov and football, and, perhaps most significantly, her childhood in pre-war Vietnam, the experiences that propelled her most famous novel, The Lover.
A true literary event, finally available in English, The Suspended Passion is a remarkable document of an extraordinary literary life.« less