{"product_id":"the-suspended-passion-marguerite-duras-9780857427564","title":"The Suspended Passion: Interviews","description":"A 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The 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, \u003ci\u003eThe Lover\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e A true literary event, finally available in English, \u003ci\u003eThe Suspended Passion\u003c\/i\u003e is a remarkable document of an extraordinary literary life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Marguerite Duras\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0857427563\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780857427564\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Seagull Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/05\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 184\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.50d","brand":"Marguerite Duras","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43983576989951,"sku":"9780857427564","price":12.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_484ccf41-5a0f-48dd-b45b-9bae6aeb0bba.jpg?v=1683267472","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-suspended-passion-marguerite-duras-9780857427564","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}