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Marguerite Duras
Mass Market Paperback | Pages: 370 pages Rating: 3.78 | 1958 Users | 109 Reviews
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| Title | : | Un barrage contre le Pacifique |
| Author | : | Marguerite Duras |
| Book Format | : | Mass Market Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 370 pages |
| Published | : | January 1st 1978 by Folio (first published 1950) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Cultural. France. Classics. European Literature. French Literature |
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Les barrages de la mère dans la plaine, c'était le grand malheur et la grande rigolade à la fois, ça dépendait des jours. C'était la grande rigolade du grand malheur. C'était terrible et c'était marrant. Ça dépendait de quel côté on se plaçait, du côté de la mer qui les avait fichus en l'air, ces barrages, d'un seul coup d'un seul, du côté des crabes qui en avaient fait des passoires, ou au contraire, du côté de ceux qui avaient mis six mois à les construire dans l'oubli total des méfaits pourtant certains de la mer et des crabes.Ce qui était étonnant c'était qu'ils avaient été deux cents à oublier ça en se mettant au travail.
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| Original Title: | Un barrage contre le Pacifique |
| ISBN: | 2070368823 (ISBN13: 9782070368822) |
| Edition Language: | French |
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Ratings: 3.78 From 1958 Users | 109 ReviewsAssessment Containing Books Un barrage contre le Pacifique
If Knausgaard met Toni Morrison. I love books when nothing happens and nothing really happens for the first 200 pages."...held in an inexplicable network and depended so closely one upon the other that you could not touch one of them without affecting all others...." p. 276"It was as if her face were torn apart with conflicting emotions, divided between extraordinary and inhuman lassitude and a boy less extraordinary and inhuman rapture. However, shortly before... the expressions of both raptureA very deep, violent, true and special book.
I finally got around to reading a Duras book. I enjoyed the novel, but also really appreciated reading about French Indochina. I will be haunted by the descriptions of the packs of sick, hungry, dying children for a long time.
Great book to reread - it's true that you never read the same book twice - glad I did.
While the story contained in this book is difficult to recount as it lacks any tremendously memorable or focal events, I was riveted to it the whole way through...really it was difficult to put down. The story describes a mother, her two children, and a time span of a few months in their lives as the children are just on the cusp of adulthood and independence. The descriptions of poverty, struggle and life in a hostile environment are devastating and very effective in the context of the story.
It's set in a bungalow on the swampland coast of colonial Indochina, which makes it surprising that it's actually, sneakily, a book about the movies. A mother, daughter and brother are stranded on a worthless piece of property where the would-be fields flood every season, washing away whatever had been planted in their mud in the spring. The mother worked fifteen years playing piano under the screen of the colonial capital's movie theater to buy the land. She didn't watch a film the entire time.
I've read most of Margueritte Duras's books, and this is probably my favorite, besides maybe Summer Rain, and it's a more involved story than that. I like her writing because the prose feels really spare, and you kind of read along in the story waiting to see where it's going to go, and then you find that you're in the middle of the story and it's simpler and deeper than you thought. She writes with a tone of romantic longing, but it's mixed with an almost Samuel Beckett like post-apocalyptic
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