Duras Trilogy:

by Marguerite Duras

Book by Duras, Marguerite

287 pages, Paperback

Published December 1, 1999

About the author

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.

Reviews

[Sayantani Saha]

Beautifully woven narratives, each of which unfolds the psyche of very difficult people. Reading the three novellas felt like going out on a walk with a stranger who helps us ask appropriate questions, and understand human behaviour as it truly is. Duras creates a different world with her words, familiarizes the reader to this world, and yet the view is allowed only from a distance. Such is the majesty of these three works. Mesmerized...

[Julián]

Marguerite Duras era una gran retratista de los mundos interiores de sus personajes. Mucho de eso se pierde en la traducción tan torpe de este volumen.

[Andy Todd]

Dense, difficult, I struggled to follow these novellas.

[Howard]

Duras has an intimate, sensual style which reveals the subtleties of relationships and is elegantly sparse with forays into the abstract. there are three novellas in this collection, the best of which is the middle one, 1030 on a Summer Night, which combines a relationship breakdown with a freak storm and the hunt for a crime of passion murderer

[Anirudh Karnick]

'The Square' is a favourite novel. I don't think I'd ever heard of Duras when I first read it on a train journey. '10:30 on a Summer Night' is all right - better than most novels of course but in no way essential.

[nein]

The Square: 2/5
10:30: 4/5
The Afternoon: 2/5