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Moderato Cantabile
Marguerite Duras
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Description for Moderato Cantabile
Paperback. Translator(s): Seaver, Richard. Num Pages: 150 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128. .
A distressed young man murders the woman he loves in a cafe, watched by a large crowd. Fascinated by the crime she has witnessed, Anne Desbaresdes returns several times to the scene, forming a relationship with a man who also saw the murder, and drinking through the afternoon with him as he patiently answers her eager questions. Slowly, they find themselves being taken over by forces which threaten their own stability. Moderato Cantabile is a carefully woven tapestry of emotion, in which the characters' inner lives are reflected by the story's spaces and landscapes.
A distressed young man murders the woman he loves in a cafe, watched by a large crowd. Fascinated by the crime she has witnessed, Anne Desbaresdes returns several times to the scene, forming a relationship with a man who also saw the murder, and drinking through the afternoon with him as he patiently answers her eager questions. Slowly, they find themselves being taken over by forces which threaten their own stability. Moderato Cantabile is a carefully woven tapestry of emotion, in which the characters' inner lives are reflected by the story's spaces and landscapes.
Product Details
Publisher
Calder Publications
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
150
Place of Publication
Surrey, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780714544557
SKU
V9780714544557
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Ref
99-4
About Marguerite Duras
Prix Goncourt winner Marguerite Duras (1914-96) is one of the most influential figures in French postwar literature, with The Sea Wall, The Lover and Moderato Cantabile among her most famous novels.
Reviews for Moderato Cantabile
Duras's sentences lodge themselves slowly in the reader's mind until they detonate with all the force of fused feeling and thought.
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