The Square

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THE SQUARE
MARGUERITE DURAS
Marguerite Duras, one of the most distinguished of today's writers, has managed to combine an outstanding literary reputation with a popular appeal that keeps her admirers anxiously waiting for her next book. Her successful plays and film scripts, especially the famous Hiroshima, Mon Amour, and her many novels bear witness to a remarkable degree of versatility. The Square is a novel told in dialogue between a man and a woman who meet in a public square. He is a travelling salesman, she a nursemaid who looks after an old woman as well as a young child. Both are unhappy, lonely, tragically optimistic people. The relationship which develops during the long spring afternoon is a universal one, perhaps the beginnings of love, a word that is never once used. But the whole of humanity will recognise something of itself in this beautiful, tender, obliquely-written novel. It remains Marguerite Duras's most highly praised book,... Tovább

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J-6 A JUPITER BOOK
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4s. 6d.
THE SQUARE
MARGUERITE DURAS
Marguerite Duras, one of the most distinguished of today's writers, has managed to combine an outstanding literary reputation with a popular appeal that keeps her admirers anxiously waiting for her next book. Her successful plays and film scripts, especially the famous Hiroshima, Mon Amour, and her many novels bear witness to a remarkable degree of versatility. The Square is a novel told in dialogue between a man and a woman who meet in a public square. He is a travelling salesman, she a nursemaid who looks after an old woman as well as a young child. Both are unhappy, lonely, tragically optimistic people. The relationship which develops during the long spring afternoon is a universal one, perhaps the beginnings of love, a word that is never once used. But the whole of humanity will recognise something of itself in this beautiful, tender, obliquely-written novel. It remains Marguerite Duras's most highly praised book, and it has been adapted many times for the stage, and for television. In this very faithful translation by Sonia Orwell and Irina Morduch, The Square establishes itself as a miniature masterpiece.
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