eCognoscente - Literature - Marguerite Duras, The North Chin

ecognoscente.com — Marguerite Duras originally wrote The North China Lover as notes to the film script for her 1985 book The Lover. The North China Lover ended up being a powerful novel, and we prefer this version to the original for its cinematic qualities and haunting resonance. Duras was fascinated by the cross-pollination of genres and in some of her more Feb 27, 2010 View in Crawl 4