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Marguerite Duras is a famous French writer, playwright and film director. She was born in Hyadin near Saigon, in Indochina (now Vietnam), where her relatives were engaged in teaching. In 1931, she returned to France with her family. She studied mathematics at the Sorbonne, then law and political science. During the Second World War, she participated in the Resistance movement.

Wrote her first novel in 1943. It was followed by The Sailor from Gibraltar (1952), Moderato Cantabile (1958), The Deadly Disease (1982), the play The Second Music (1985), the book of memoirs Pain (1986) and many others.

The main theme of M. Duras's work is a revolt against the faded everyday life. Some of her works are characterised by a strong element of eroticism (The Deadly Disease, The Lover).

In 1984, Marguerite Duras wrote her most famous novel, The Lover, which won the Goncourt Prize. The Lover is largely autobiographical, and its style is much more sophisticated than that of all her previous works. The psychological flow here is delivered under such pressure that it is perceived as music. The story takes place in Indochina, the French heroine is fifteen and a half years old, she lives with her mother and two brothers. The elder brother is a bastard, a gambler and a troublemaker, the younger brother is a gentle and sensual boy. The mother selflessly loves her eldest son, and is indifferent to all the others. The young heroine dreams of going to France, but for now she has been sent to a boarding school. Once on a ferry, she meets a Chinese man who becomes her lover. He is the son of a very rich father, and the girl becomes his dependent. The young man is terrified when he realises that he is truly in love with the girl.

1992. Jean-Jacques Annaud directed the famous film of the same name, which won several prestigious film awards.

Duras began working in cinema as a screenwriter for films based on her own novels. Her most famous work is the script for Alain Resnais' classic melodrama Hiroshima, My Love (1959). In addition, she directed a number of films that aroused considerable critical interest (Natalie Granger, The Truck, The Man from the Atlantic, etc.

The last years of Marguerite Duras's life were illuminated by a truly incredible love that brought together the not-yet-young Duras with a young man named Ian Andrea. Each of them published their own version of the story of their relationship: Duras wrote the novel Blue Eyes, Black Hair, and Andrea responded with the book This Love. One of Marguerite Duras's contemporaries said of her: "She was the Piaf of our literature and, like her, she cried out incessantly for love. But the famous actress Fanny Ardant said it even more accurately: "Duras teaches us that the main story of any life is love. And if something else seems more important to you, it means that you are already dead.

The story «The Lover» has been translated and published in more than forty countries around the world.