blueyorkie's review against another edition
5.0
What I love above all: is her modesty. She touches me when she talks about serious things without ever taking pleasure. What makes me smile: is her megalomania when she talks about herself in the third person. What makes me sad: is that writing, inseparable from being "Marguerite Duras", inseparable from alcohol, inseparable from home, was as much what helped her to live as what drowned her. As a surface of contact with others, as a prison just as much. I wish and hope to be wrong, with the writing was more what drove her.
pepismexis's review against another edition
emotional
5.0
Best book, why would you read anything else?
mushisly's review against another edition
3.0
une plume magnifique, qui nous transporte dans l'esprit de marguerite duras, pour le meilleur et pour le pire.
une succession de réflexions sur les hommes, les femmes, l'écriture, l'amour.
mais aussi un lourd témoignage d'une vie marquée par la maladie et l'alcoolisme.
bref un récit poignant, malgré les passages terriblement homophobes.
une succession de réflexions sur les hommes, les femmes, l'écriture, l'amour.
mais aussi un lourd témoignage d'une vie marquée par la maladie et l'alcoolisme.
bref un récit poignant, malgré les passages terriblement homophobes.
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