REVIEW: The Lover (Duras)
[ Home ] I fall in live with this book when I read the first paragraph of it: ONE DAY, I was already old, in the entrance of apublic place, a man came up to me. He introduced himself and said: “I’ve known you for years. Everyone says you were beautiful when you were young, but I want to tell you I think you’re more beautiful now than then. Rather than you face as a young woman, I prefer your face as it is now.”Just from that, I know I’ll love it because of the amazing saying style and it does not disappoint me.
One of the feature of it is people there without name----if you think mother, brother, lover or I dose it---which only indicate relation, intimate or not, to us, to focus reader more on the emotion and story among characters.
The other is broken oration. Writer says several words, sentences iteratively to emphasize complex emotion, evil or happy, on reader. Sometimes its mood is so strong that I trill to my boots.
Two of these interesting of this book are just a small part of its beautiful as a drop of water to a vast sea. But it does sink reader into the some-like autobiography. It seems like that you are the girl, the fifteen white French who had an affair with a rich Chinese man in Mekong, people met, sexed, end with departure. Good writer makes reader suffer the same thing with the character, sounds like reader has lived once during reading processing. So do The Lover. Duras does a really fabulous work and I recommend it to you.
Imitation to Arab Andalusian Poetry