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kathrinpassig's review against another edition
4.0
Der erste Text in dieser Sammlung hat mich sehr interessiert und die vier Sterne sind ausschließlich dafür. Der Rest war Beifang.
lwb's review against another edition
4.0
Tales from the French resistance at end of WW2, told as only a master can.
moncoinlecture's review against another edition
4.0
Le journal de Duras, alors qu'elle attendait le retour de son mari des camps de concentration. L'angoisse de la narratrice est palpable, le tout avec le style si particulier, haletant, de Duras. Bref, marquant.
kirsten0929's review against another edition
5.0
Beautiful. The most visceral, heart-wrenching description of waiting, waiting for someone who may not be coming home, that I've ever read. Provided a really interesting perspective as a member of the French Resistance in Paris during WWII, something I know almost nothing about. Primarily memoir, based on her journals kept during the war, but ended with two short stories that I enjoyed somewhat less. Beautiful writing but as usual with a translation, I'm never sure how much is author and how much is translator.
missemleigh's review against another edition
3.0
3.5/5 stars - another book for my French history class. Really grueling account of ww2, mixed feelings about the narrator - very interesting perspective there tied to memory/forgetting. (but we love a communist rebel <3)
eliathereader's review against another edition
3.0
Çok sevemedim ama yine de kitabı kitaplığımda tutacağım sanırım yıllar sonra belki tekrar okurum düşüncelerim değişmiş olur.
mags_k's review against another edition
5.0
loved how duras wove each section together. easy to connect with her because of how detailed she describes her experiences.
johndiconsiglio's review against another edition
5.0
Duras had a novelist’s relationship with the truth. Blurred lines are the fare for traveling in her world. So when reading this riveting memoir of her French Resistance work with Francois Mitterrand—published in 1985 but perhaps begun in 1944—it’s best not to worry if she really has “no recollection of having written it.” For readers, her pseudo-diary is unforgettable. Her spare language sketches occupied Paris, her husband’s release from a concentration camp, her cat-&-mouse flirtation with a frightening Gestapo agent & her gruesome interrogation of a Nazi collaborator. A slim book that captures the moral compromises of wartime.
jeannepiou's review against another edition
5.0
I knew bringing this book to the beach that it would be the worst beach read ever
This stretched my skin, ripped my organs and made me fall down on the sand.
This stretched my skin, ripped my organs and made me fall down on the sand.