Duras: A Biography

by Alain Vircondelet

This is the first full-length biography of one of the best-known and most influential French writers of our time, as celebrated for her films (Hiroshima Mon Amour) as for her novels (The Ravishing of Lol Stein, The Lover). It takes Duras from colonial Indochina (where she was born in 1914) to wartime France, through the intellectual skirmishes of the 1950s and leftist movements of the 1960s, up to the present time. An autobiographical writer by nature,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1564780651
• ISBN13: 9781564780652
• Release Date: November 1994
• Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
• Length: 378 Pages
• Weight: 1.63 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 5.9" x 9.4"