Marguerite Duras’s ‘The Lover,’ and Notebooks That Enrich It Duras’s best-known novel has been reissued in an Everyman’s Library edition, alongside her “Wartime Notebooks” and “Practicalities,” a ...

L’Été 80, her fable-like political column for Libération, showed the full force of the revolutionary energies running through the French writer’s work. Marguerite Duras in Paris, France, 1986. (Photo ...

Marguerite Duras, left, was a major influence on Annie Ernaux, winner of this year's Nobel Prize in literature, and the generation of women writers who came after them. (Roger Parry/Editions Gallimard ...

At 70, Marguerite Duras published, to much acclaim, “The Lover,” an autobiographical novel about her sexual awakening at age 15 in Saigon, with an older, wealthy man. She had alluded to this ...

In the vastness of war’s impact, waiting takes on a special kind of psychological peril. One waits for death or freedom, and sometimes, each can seem like the other. But what made the World War II ...

This engrossing volume of newly published material from French novelist and memoirist Duras's wartime notebooks contains writing as roiled and violent as the years that produced it. Selections range ...

After the Second World War, a succession of French novelists—most famously Alain Robbe-Grillet, Nathalie Sarraute, and Michel Butor—developed a kind of fiction which, though influenced by American ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Marguerite Duras, left, was a major influence on Annie Ernaux, winner of this year's Nobel Prize in literature, and the generation ...

For 15 years, French viewers watched Mr. Pivot on his weekly show, “Apostrophes,” to decide what to read next. By Adam Nossiter Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times. A ...