In Gabriel García Márquez’s posthumously-released novel, Until August, a woman visits the island where her mother is buried, a nameless speck off the Caribbean with blue lagoons and herons that call only at night. After laying a bouquet of gladioli on the panoramic hilltop that provides her mother’s resting place, Ana Magdalena Bach returns to the third-rate hotel in which she has booked a room before taking the ferry back home, shamelessly flirting with a silver-haired man in the dining hall. At the age of forty-six, Ana Magdalena has been married for twenty-seven years and has only ever seen her husband naked, but that soon changes when she sleeps with her random acquaintance, who never tells her his name.
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Mirror mirror: Marguerite Duras’s acclaimed classic India Song and her less well-known Baxter, Vera Baxter offer striking examples of her knack for colliding literary language with the audiovisual form