The Lover by Marguerite Duras

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  How does love play a significant part in Marguerite Duras's The Lover?
  In Marguerite Duras's The Lover, a coming-of-age story, sexual love is a dominant theme, but the relationship also symbolizes political issues. Duras's partially autobiographical novel depicts a...

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  How are family abuse and trauma revealed in Marguerite Duras' semi-autobiographical novel The Lover?
  The very first sentence in Marguerite Duras’ semi-autobiographical novel The Lover speaks at once to the lifetime of emotional hardships and abuse to which Duras’ narrator has been subjected:...

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  What are the techniques utilized by Duras in ''The Lover'' to channel the opinions, feelings, and sensations of the audience? How does she instill expectations in the reader?
  I believe you are asking how the author, Marguerite Duras, connects with the audience in telling the story of her childhood in Indochina (French colonial Vietnam) and her Chinese lover when she was...

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  Is the detachment in Duras' The Loveran aspect of anxiety, post-traumatic effect or simple narrative decision? Having read all the material posted herein, all seem plausible. But in the end, it changes...
  You posed a great question. We know that Duras writes mostly about her life, even if she doesn't exactly write autobiographies. That being said, however, we could say that the style of The Lover...

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