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The Sailor from Gibraltar

by Duras, Marguerite

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Book Overview "A haunting tale of strange and random passion."-New York TimesDisaffected, bored with his career at the French Colonial Ministry (where ...

"A haunting tale of strange and random passion."-New York Times

Disaffected, bored with his career at the French Colonial Ministry (where he has copied out birth and death certificates for eight years), and disgusted by a mistress whose vapid optimism arouses his most violent misogyny, the narrator of The Sailor from Gibraltar finds himself at the point of complete breakdown while vacationing in Florence. After leaving his mistress and the Ministry behind forever, he joins the crew of The Gibraltar, a yacht captained by Anna, a beautiful American in perpetual search of her sometime lover, a young man known only as the "Sailor from Gibraltar."

First published in 1952, this early novel of Duras's-which was made into a film in 1967-shows those preoccupations which have so deeply concerned her in her later novels and film scripts: loneliness, boredom, the inevitability and intangibility of love. The lambent poetry of the book, and the limning of a woman's mind, her love and sense of the inevitability of that love are singularly Marguerite Duras.

 

Book Details Format: Paperback | Pages: 276 | Language: English | Publisher: OPEN LETTER | ISBN: 1934824046
FormatPaperback
Pages276
LanguageEnglish
ISBN1934824046
EAN9781934824047
PublisherOPEN LETTER
Publication Date1970-01-01
AccessoriesNo Accessory
ConditionNew
Product TypeQUALITY PAPERBACK BOOKS
Weight0.81 Pounds
Length8.54 Inches
Width5.6 Inches
Height0.84 Inches
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