The Lover
Korean Title: Yeonin
Author: Marguerite Duras
Translator: In-hwan Kim
Publisher: Minumsa
153 pages | 225*132mm
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About This Book
It is said old loves can haunt us. The Lover creates this feeling
through an atmosphere of shadows, veils, floating memories that came
from - was it this boat trip or the last one? from age eight or twelve
or thirty? In the end it doesn't matter, for the experience is now
embedded, a distinct yet inseparable part of the personality. Marguerite
Duras mines her own past to tell The Lover, the story of an adolescent
girl growing up in Indochina during the 1930s. The girl is wayward,
rebellious; one day, returning to school on the ferry, dressed in gold
lame shoes, a man's hat and a silk dress, she encounters the son of a
Chinese millionaire. Soon they are involved in the first affair of her
life, one she claims has no basis in love for her. He can never marry
her - his father has refused - and she says she will leave without
regrets. But is that possible? Years later she looks back. By presenting
ideas and memories in paragraphs that are literally isolated yet
constantly overlapping, The Lover creates a misty world of connections
made by emotion rather than logic or chronology, a feeling that lingers
after the book itself is closed. --Erica Bauermeister
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