“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