The War: A Memoir

ISBN-13: 9781565842212 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 192 str.

Marguerite Duras; Barbara Bray

Opis

Written in 1944 and first published in 1985, Duras s riveting account of life in Paris during the Nazi occupation and the first 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 Francois 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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