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Even today in Ho Chi Minh City learned old Vietnamese men will speak to you of Marguerite’s book The Sea Wall with their eyes full of tears.They’re moved not so much by the mother’s despair as by the passion with which Duras pays tribute to the men who died in the blistering heat,cutting and laying roads through the swamps for France.This orally transmitted historical fact has never been properly recorded.
— Aug 10, 2024 05:16AM
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Marguerite Duras was the only one to speak of the children of the plain [in Vietnam] who the moment they were born were condemned to die of hunger, cholera or dysentery. ‘The children simply went back to the land like wild mountain mangoes, like the little monkeys from the mouth of the lagoon.’”
— Aug 11, 2024 03:30AM
