Research Catalog

Title

Suspended passion / interviews with Leopoldina Pallotta della Torre ; translated by Chris Turner.

Author

Duras, Marguerite

Publication

• London : Seagull Books 2016.
• ©2016

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Details

Additional Authors

• Pallotta della Torre, Leopoldina
• Turner, Chris, 1953-

Description

183 pages; 21 cm

Summary

"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' 'secret confession' - offers readers a rich vein of new insight into her work, opinions, life and relationships. The interviews were conducted in 1987, when Italian journalist Leopoldina Pallotta della Torre met the 73-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 Vietnam, the experiences that propelled her most famous novel, The Lover. A true literary event, Suspended Passion, now available in English, is a remarkable document of an extraordinary literary life."

Series Statement

The French List

Uniform Title

• Passione sospesa English
• French list.

Alternative Title

Passione sospesa

Subjects

• Authors, French > 20th century > Interviews
• Duras, Marguerite > Interviews
• Interviews

Genre/Form

Interviews.

Language (note)

• Text in English, translated from the French which was translated from the original Italian.

Contents

A childhood -- The Paris years -- Trajectories of writing -- Towards a textual analysis -- Literature -- The critics -- A gallery of characters -- Cinema -- Theatre -- Passion -- A woman -- Places.

Call Number

JFD 16-4181

ISBN

• 9780857423290
• 0857423290

OCLC

921865964

Author

Duras, Marguerite, interviewee.

Title

Suspended passion / interviews with Leopoldina Pallotta della Torre ; translated by Chris Turner.

Publisher

London : Seagull Books 2016.

Copyright Date

©2016

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

The French List

French list.

Language

Text in English, translated from the French which was translated from the original Italian.

Added Author

Pallotta della Torre, Leopoldina, interviewer.

Turner, Chris, 1953- translator.

Research Call Number

JFD 16-4181