Marguerite Duras
Praise for The Lover, Wartime Notebooks, Practicalities
THE LOVER: Rarely have I read a novel so flawlessly written.
Spectator
Perfect, a tour de force ... dealing successfully with the strong themes of erotic love and death.
New York Times Book Review
WARTIME NOTEBOOKS: By turns ardent, raging, sensual and embittered ... A dreamlike, savage world, in which the great themes of love, war and death found their most recklessly impassioned chronicler.
Observer
THE LOVER: Rarely have I read a novel so flawlessly written.
Spectator
Perfect, a tour de force ... dealing successfully with the strong themes of erotic love and death.
New York Times Book Review
WARTIME NOTEBOOKS: By turns ardent, raging, sensual and embittered ... A dreamlike, savage world, in which the great themes of love, war and death found their most recklessly impassioned chronicler.
Observer
THE LOVER: Rarely have I read a novel so flawlessly written.
Spectator
Perfect, a tour de force ... dealing successfully with the strong themes of erotic love and death.
New York Times Book Review
WARTIME NOTEBOOKS: By turns ardent, raging, sensual and embittered ... A dreamlike, savage world, in which the great themes of love, war and death found their most recklessly impassioned chronicler.
Observer
