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| Original Title: | Hiroshima mon amour |
| ISBN: | 8432216941 (ISBN13: 9788432216947) |
| Edition Language: | Spanish |
| Setting: | Japan |
Marguerite Duras
Paperback | Pages: 160 pages Rating: 3.9 | 3858 Users | 207 Reviews
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| Title | : | Hiroshima Mon Amour |
| Author | : | Marguerite Duras |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Booket |
| Pages | : | Pages: 160 pages |
| Published | : | October 1st 2005 by Planeta (first published 1959) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Cultural. France. Classics. Plays. European Literature. French Literature. Culture. Film |
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Duras, who was rightly nominated for a Oscar (Best Screenplay), for Alain Resnais's 1959 film, has produced a Painful, haunting and unforgettable piece of writing, exploring themes she has always held close to her heart, that being love and reminiscence. A Japanese architect and a French actress form the basis of this celebrated short novel, set in Hiroshima, which, essentially is a metaphor for one's inability to forget the wounds of history, during the aftermath of the Second world war. The single couple make up the story where lovers turned friends spend considerable time pondering on previous romances and life experiences. They intertwine their memories on the past, whilst trying to come to terms with the devastation caused by the atomic bomb, and what lies ahead. Sombre in tone and minimal in it's approach, the delicate, sparse narrative is a classic example of how to write about love, striping away all the melodramatic nonsense that clogs up so many other love stories, laying itself down bare, with sorrow and tenderness. Less of a novel, more a work of art. 5/5Rating Appertaining To Books Hiroshima Mon Amour
Ratings: 3.9 From 3858 Users | 207 ReviewsNotice Appertaining To Books Hiroshima Mon Amour
After watching and utterly falling for Alain Resnais's and Marguerite Duras's 1959 film Hiroshima mon amour back in March, I was so enamored of the languagesparse, yet compelling enough that I recited phrases from the film to myself for weeks after watching itthat I had to search out Duras's original screenplay and spend some time absorbing the words at a slower-than-speech pace. Doing so only increased my admiration for Duras's work here, while at the same time helping me realize how much theI really can't seem to enjoy Duras's fiction. It feels empty and the love stories seem silly. While there's something beautiful about the way the different time periods resonate together, this is the second of her female characters I've very much disliked for being only defined through the tragic love story that destroyed her in her early twenties. It's a bit... eh.Anyway... Won't be rushing out to see that film or read more of Duras just yet.
I was going to say this was a completely waste of time, but it wasnt. I think its necessary to read something bad to appreciate the good. I found this book particulary annoying since its considered a classic and a masterpiece. Christ, James Joyce is a classic and his books are all masterpieces. This is just an insult to literature. I get it, Duras is showing the uneasy relationship between love and pain after the IIWW. It shows different perspectives about war and how difficult is to love after
3,5/5Beautifully written but the format was slightly confusing, this just made me want to check out more of Marguerite Dura's work.
A hopeless love [...] therefore already relegated to oblivion. Therefore eternal.[...] Just as in love this illusion exists, this illusion of being able never to forget [...] Like you, I know what it is to forget. [...] Like you, I have a memory. I know what it is to forget. [...] Like you, I too have tried with all my might not to forget. Like you, I forgot. Like you, I wanted to have an inconsolable memory, a memory of shadows and stone.
Aaah la Duras!
Aaah la Duras!
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