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The Lover Paperback - 1997 by MARGUERITE DURAS
- Sales Rank: #707444 in Books
- Published on: 1997
- Binding: Paperback
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Enchanting Love Story
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BEYOND a certain vogue, as I remember, for ''Bonjour Tristesse'' and Albert Camus, a pious regard for Proust and Flaubert, and an occasional attempt at something almost-English, like the fussy, Gothic work of Michel Tournier, Americans on the whole do not get on with the French novel, and certainly not with the French experimental writers with whom Marguerite Duras is most often linked. It is true that in much of her work, Miss Duras uses obscurity - or at least manner and formal control - to combat or disguise her tendency to be melodramatic and sentimental. But in her small, perfect, new novel, she has found in reworking material she has used before - material evidently full of personal meaning - a felicitous and masterly balance between formalism and powerful emotional effect. ''The Lover,'' in this fine translation by Barbara Bray, is accessible the way Thomas Mann's ''Death in Venice'' or D. M. Thomas's ''White Hotel'' are accessible, both because of the interesting narrative particulars - one might say the surface of the works - and because they deal successfully with strong basic themes of erotic love and death.
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The story is told by a narrator, now in her 60's, whose life resembles in some details Miss Duras's own. She is looking back on an episode of her adolescence and its emotional consequences on her life since. She describes herself now as ''ravaged,'' emotionally dead, and it is because of the intensity with which she felt then, at her initiation into sexual love when she was 15 1/2, a high-school student in Indochina. She was picked up by a rich young Chinese man in his limousine and went with him to his apartment, where he became her lover. She went with him every day.
This is in Saigon, where Miss Duras was born and grew up. The narrator's French family is bound in poverty and unhappiness, the father dead, an older brother whom she fears, a younger whom she loves, a mother whom she loves, pities and dislikes. The mother and brothers know and do not know of her affair, her disgrace. It is never acknowledged or discussed. Sometimes the lover takes them all to dinner:
''My brothers gorge themselves without saying a word to him. They don't look at him either. They can't. They're incapable of it. . . . He, the first couple of times, plunges in and tries to tell the story of his adventures in Paris, but in vain. It's as if he hadn't spoken, as if nobody had heard.''
The lover and the girl singlemindedly indulge their passion, described in language characteristically both lurid and flat: ''I used to watch what he did with me, how he used me, and I'd never thought anyone could act like that, he acted beyond my hope and in accordance with my body's destiny.'' As in many of her other works such as ''Moderato Cantabile'' or ''The Ravishing of Lol Stein,'' Miss Duras's female protagonist is a dreamlike slave of love, sexual almost against her will, driven by desire but also passive, and it is her passivity and desire that compel the male. To him she is a treasured object, a captive, possessed and imprisoned. There is no doubt these are archetypes of female sexual fantasy. But perhaps only the fantasies of women of a certain age? M OREOVER, the lover is Oriental (as in her well-known screenplay for the film ''Hiroshima Mon Amour''). That is, he is exotic and forbidden, the more attractive for being forbidden. (It seems that interracial passion in literature in English has usually meant that the woman was Oriental - and it was a long time before anyone went beyond ''Eurasian.'') In any case, to go with such a man is emblematic of sin and rebellion. Like Mr. Rochester or Heathcliff, he is rich, dark, mysterious. His car is a mythic black limousine: ''Yes, it's the big funeral car that's in my books. It's a Morris Leon-Bollee. The black Lancia at the French embassy in Calcutta hasn't yet made its entrance on the literary scene.'' His potency is dependable and she is always desired - he is the perfect dream lover, and this is all the very stuff of romance.
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