| Yann Andrea Steiner Contributor(s): Duras, Marguerite (Author), Polizzotti, Mark (Translator) |
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ISBN: 0976395088 ISBN-13: 9780976395089 Publisher: Archipelago Books OUR PRICE: $13.50 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2006 Annotation: "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 force of a metaphysical contemplation of the paradoxes of the human heart."-"The New York Times Book Review" (for "The Lover") "Yann Andra Steiner" is a haunting dance between two parallel loves; the love between Marguerite Duras and the young Yann Andra, and a love witnessed (or imagined) through the narrator's window-a seaside romance between a camp counselor and a camper. The summer of 1980 flows into 1944 in this enigmatic journey through history, creation, and raw emotion. The daughter of French schoolteachers, Marguerite Duras (1914-1996) was born in Vietnam. At 17 she moved to France where she studied law and politics. She is the author of a great many novels, plays, films, and short narratives, including her internationally best-selling, ostensibly autobiographical work, "The Lover" (1984). |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2006042880 |
| Physical Information: 0.34" H x 5.56" W x 6.32" (0.28 lbs) 109 pages |
| Themes: - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Dedicated to Duras' companion with whom she spent her last decade of life, Yann Andr a Steiner is a haunting dance between two parallel stories of love and solitude: the love between Duras and the young Yann Andr a 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. |