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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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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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What are the techniques utilized by Duras in ''The Lover'' to channel the opinions, feelings, and sensations of the...
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 Lover an aspect of anxiety, post-traumatic effect or simple narrative decision?...
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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Analyze the title of the book The Lover, in particular the use of the definite article “The.”
To address the statement, it is important to look at the title's grammatical elements and relate it to the content of Marguerite Duras's The Lover. The title of the story has some notable grammatic...