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Marguerite Duras never-before-translated debut novel The Impudent Ones, first published in 1943, isn t a pleasant read but it is a signpost to what she would later achieve with The Lover.
The Impudent Ones, by Marguerite Duras Image: The New Press
Fans of Marguerite Duras (1914-1996) may be excited to learn that her debut novel,
The Impudent Ones [
Les Impudents], written in her mid-20s, has received its first English translation by Kelsey L. Haskett.
Duras was celebrated during her lifetime. She won the Prix Goncourt and other praise for novels and screenplays, including
Hiroshima Mon Amour, an iconic film directed by Alain Resnais.
To prepare for this review, I reread Duras s bestselling autobiographical novel
The Lover [
L Amant], published in 1984 and set in 1930s French Indochina. In that book, a nameless 15-year-old French girl ferries across the Mekong Delta to boarding school in Saigon. She meets a nameless older, wealthy Chinese man with whom she has an affair all sex and no words that lasts for two years until she returns to France. The girl comes from a bourgeois family on the decline; Papa is dead and Maman struggles to hold together her two
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