DesireThe first time ever I saw your face was on the ferry.I had my head buried in a copy of the South China Morning Post. My father had said, if I read it every day, I would learn about the world around us, and his boy would become a man. Only then would I be ready to take over the family busine...
so there's this chick Lol Stein, a real blank broad, gets ditched by her cougar-lovin' fiance. bitch goes crazy, but the quiet kinda crazy, the kinda crazy you keep to yourself. girl gets married to some musician type. years later, she's a mother of three, living in her old town, and she gets wra...
After reading Annie Ernaux’ Simple Passion, I read somewhere that that book was similar to Marguerite Duras’ The Lover. So, I thought I should read The Lover sometime. Recently while thinking of new French novels to buy, I discovered that there was an omnibus edition which had four of Marguerite ...
Μια μέρα δεν είναι πια εκείΞυπνάτε και δεν είναι εκείΈχει χαθεί μέσα στη νύχταμόνο τα σημάδια του κορμιού της στα κρύα σεντόνιααπουσίαΞημερώνειο ήλιος αργεί αλλά ο ορίζοντας δείχνει να χαράζειο ουρανός είναι ακόμη σκοτεινόςμια ελπίδα ημέραςστο άδειο δωμάτιοΜόνοςτο σώμα απόνη απουσία αυτή σας επιβ...
Yann Andrea Steiner comes from Duras’ later works and accordingly, reflects back on her life as a writer through the context of her love with the young man, Yann Andrea Steiner. The book weaves between three stories, times and places. The initial story is that of Duras and her lover, Steiner, as ...