{"product_id":"suspended-passion-marguerite-duras-9780857427564","title":"Suspended Passion","description":"\u003cp\u003eA controversial figure of the postwar French literary and cultural scene, Marguerite Duras has exerted a powerful hold on readers around the world. This volume of interviews - hailed on its French publication as Duras's 'secret confession' - offers readers a rich vein of new insight into her work, opinions, life, and relationships.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe interviews that make up the book were conducted in 1987, when Italian journalist Leopoldina Pallotta della Torre met the seventy-three-year-old Duras at her Paris flat and convinced her to sit for a series of conversations. The resulting book was published in Italian in 1989, but it somehow failed to attract a French publisher, and it was quickly forgotten. Nearly a quarter of a century later, however, the book was rediscovered and translated into French, and, it has now become a sensation. In its revealing pages, Duras speaks with extraordinary freedom about her life as a writer, her relationship to cinema, her friendship with Mitterand , her love of Chekhov and football, and, perhaps most significantly, her childhood in pre-war Vietnam, the experiences that propelled her most famous novel, The Lover.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA true literary event, finally available in English, The Suspended Passion is a remarkable document of an extraordinary literary life.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Marguerite Duras","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":43630213923059,"sku":"9780857427564","price":24.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0634\/4284\/5939\/products\/9780857427564.jpg?v=1675624191","url":"https:\/\/www.harryhartog.com.au\/products\/suspended-passion-marguerite-duras-9780857427564","provider":"Harry Hartog Bookseller","version":"1.0","type":"link"}