10/10/2023 0 Comments Novels about US Navy in Vietnam War![]() ![]() All she needs are two or three words to place you in the situation she’s in. There’s no exoticism and it’s not descriptive. Years after their affair, the Lover (Huỳnh Thủy Lê) on a trip to Paris with his wife, phoned Duras to tell her that “he still loved her, that he would never stop loving her, that he would love her for the rest of his life.”Īnd does the book give a good picture of what life in French Indochina was like? It’s interesting that it took her all that time to decide that this had been the defining moment in her coming-of-age. ![]() She wrote it much, much later, when she was 70 or so. It’s written as fiction, but it’s actually about Marguerite Duras’s life? It’s a work of autofiction, as I think the genre is called. It became a bestseller and a million copies were sold. ![]() It just appealed to me when I first read it. It was a real reversal of the white expat male with a Vietnamese girl that you see in Graham Greene’s novel, The Quiet American. He was 25 and she was only 15 at the time.Īt the beginning she is attracted by his wealth, but she realizes, in the end, that he was her first love. It’s the story of a French Catholic schoolgirl whose family has fallen on hard times and of her consensual but scandalous love affair with a rich Chinese Vietnamese. So, I started with The Lover by Marguerite Duras, because it’s a narrative of life in French colonial Vietnam. I also got the impression, looking down the list you sent me, that you were trying to cover different periods in recent Vietnamese history?Įxactly. Foreign Policy & International Relations. ![]()
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