Duras manages to combine the seemingly irreconcilable perspectives ofconfession and objectivity of lyrical poetry and nouveau roman. The sentenceslodge themselv... » 

Duras manages to combine the seemingly irreconcilable perspectives ofconfession and objectivity of lyrical poetry and nouveau roman. The sentenceslodge themselves slowly in the readers mind until they detonate with all theforce of fused feeling and thoughtthe force of a metaphysical contemplation ofthe paradoxes of the human heart.The New York Times Book Review for TheLover Yann Andrea Steiner is a haunting dance between two parallelloves the love between Marguerite Duras and the young Yann Andrea and a lovewitnessed or imagined through the narrators windowa seaside romance betweena camp counselor and a camper. The summer of 1980 flows into 1944 in thisenigmatic journey through history creation and raw emotion. The daughterof French schoolteachers Marguerite Duras 19141996 was born in Vietnam. At17 she moved to France where she studied law and politics. She is the author ofa great many novels plays films and short narratives including herinternationally bestselling ostensibly autobiographical work The Lover1984. «