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Résumé :
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Published in 1984, L'Amant (The Lover) is a novel loosely rooted in the real-life story of its author Marguerite Duras. The protagonist, a fifteen-year-old girl living in French Indochina, remains unnamed. Despite her obscured identity, many scholars argue that the unspecified young woman is a literary representation of Duras herself. At just over one hundred pages, The Lover is a short memoir unbound by conventional chronology, in which the narrator reflects on her formative years spent in Saigon. The story unfolds from her perspective, many years on, as she evaluates the events of her life. Her retelling bears a stylistic detachment: displaced by time, space, and memory, the narrative is minimalistic and unburdened by powerful emotions, which have dulled over time.
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