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The War

Marguerite Duras

Paperback | Pages: 192 pages

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Title	:	The War
Author	:	Marguerite Duras
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 192 pages
Published	:	August 1st 1994 by The New Press (first published 1985)
Categories	:	Nonfiction. Cultural. France. Autobiography. Memoir. History. War

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One of France's greatest novelists offers a remarkable diary of the Nazi occupation of Paris during World War II and of its eventual liberation by the Allies. Celebrating the 50th anniversary of the liberation, this extraordinary diary by the author of The Lover is "a haunting portrait of a time and place" (New York Times). Written in 1944, and first published in 1985, Duras's riveting account of life in Paris during the Nazi occupation and the first few months of liberation depicts the harrowing realities of World War II-era France "with a rich conviction enhanced by [a] spare, almost arid, technique" (Julian Barnes, The Washington Post Book World). Duras, by then married and part of a French resistance network headed by François Mitterand, tells of nursing her starving husband back to health after his return from Bergen-Belsen, interrogating a suspected collaborator, and playing a game of cat and mouse with a Gestapo officer who was attracted to her. The result is "more than one woman's diary...[it is] a haunting portrait of a time and a place and also a state of mind" (The New York Times).

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Original Title:	La Douleur
ISBN:	1565842219 (ISBN13: 9781565842212)
Edition Language:	English
Setting:	Paris(France)

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An important perspective of world war two. This memoir is modernist and investigates the problems of truth in writing a memoir. A lovely and terrifying story. I'm a better person for having read it.

The first piece in this collection which bears the same title as the book, the war, is perhaps one of the most painful things I have ever read; Brutally personal and breathtakingly authentic. For the two days that i was reading it i could barely think of anything other than the "characters" and what they have been through. It's as hunting as a non-fictional gets. I'll certainly go back to this text later. The biggest question I'm left with is that during those days of great suffering and

This nearly unknown book is a powerfully written look at life in France during the Nazi occupation. The author was a well known French writer who kept a running account of her experiences as people try to adapt to horrible circumstances and go 'underground' to fight the enemy. Powerful and clear. A must read.

This author's style (nouveau roman) made the book a struggle to read. The characters in the sometimes related stories concern resistance, collaboration and sympathy for the enemy. I had a tough time developing sympathy for the woman character. She whined incessantly. She was way more self-centered than those fictional English heroines w their stiff upper lips. Example: even when thinking of the fear, suffering and possible dying moments of her imprisoned husband, she wonders if he were calling

"Not for a second do I see the need to be brave. Perhaps being brave is my form of cowardice."I just realized that I have not reviewed this book yet.Part of the reason for my lapse is that there is never anything to say about war. About the Holocaust. About torture. About death.Or rather, there is too much to say that I never know where to begin.Besides Marguerite said it all already in this book.Which is in itself impressive. She says it all in here without falling into the typical trappings of

Easy to read but harrowing - Duras claims to have based these stories on some diaries she found in her attic but she has obviously modified them and made them less raw and more literary. The most harrowing thing about the whole collection is the protagonist's behaviour when she has the opportunity to use violence herself. She does so, and without scruples. As her husband wrote, people do not change and do not learn from experience.

The great sundering of 20th century Europe in all its visceral brutality, through a series of narrow cases. A waiting for word of the dead or maybe living, a forced desperate proximity to a traitor (quintessential embodiment of the banality of evil -- he failed to open an art book store, so became an official for the collaborationist government), an interrogation, a few thematic vignettes. Through these, Duras traces the contours of something inexpressible. My question for any 20th-century