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Yann Andréa Steiner

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Published: July 2006

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“Marguerite Duras’ voice, whenever we hear it, always goes straight to our hearts.”

Le Monde Diplomatique

 

“Duras remains perplexing, frank, and marvelous; this work will speak to avid readers of her work.”

— Amy Boaz, Library Journal

 

“Duras manages to combine the seemingly irreconcilable perspectives of confession and objectivity, of lyrical poetry and nouveau roman. The sentences lodge themselves slowly in the reader’s mind until they detonate with all the force of fused feeling and thought…”
The New York Times Book Review, on The Lover

 

“Marguerite Duras conjures images, memories, and sensations out of the air and into a series of freely associated essays. One can sense the pleasure this 20th-century literary giant felt in setting off onto this ethereal odyssey…Mark Polizzotti’s translation is a joy in itself.”
Boston Magazine, on Writing

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Book Description

Dedicated to Duras’ companion with whom she spent her last decade of life, Yann Andréa Steiner is a haunting dance between two parallel stories of love and solitude: the love between Duras and the young Yann Andréa and a seaside romance observed–or imagined–by the narrator between a camp counselor and an orphaned camper, a Holocaust survivor who witnessed his sister’s murder at the hands of a German soldier. Memory blurs into desire as the summer of 1980 flows into 1944. An enigmatic elegy of history, creation, and raw emotion.

Marguerite Duras’ voice, whenever we hear it, always goes straight to our hearts.

Le Monde Diplomatique


Marguerite Duras conjures images, memories, and sensations out of the air and into a series of freely associated essays. One can sense the pleasure this 20th-century literary giant felt in setting off onto this ethereal odyssey...Mark Polizzotti’s translation is a joy in itself.

Boston Magazine, on Writing


Duras manages to combine the seemingly irreconcilable perspectives of confession and objectivity, of lyrical poetry and nouveau roman. The sentences lodge themselves slowly in the reader’s mind until they detonate with all the force of fused feeling and thought...

The New York Times Book Review, on The Lover


Duras remains perplexing, frank, and marvelous; this work will speak to avid readers of her work.

Amy Boaz, Library Journal


Marguerite Duras in The New York Times Magazine.

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