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The easy life

Title
The easy life / Marguerite Duras ; translated by Emma Ramadan and Olivia Baes ; foreword by Kate Zambreno.
Author
Duras, Marguerite
Publication
New York : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2022.

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Additional Authors
  • Ramadan, Emma
  • Baes, Olivia
  • Zambreno, Kate
Description
xv, 187 pages; 21 cm
Summary
"The Easy Life is the story of Francine Veyrenattes, a twenty-five-year-old woman who already feels like life is passing her by. After witnessing a series of tragedies on her family farm, she alternates between intense grief and staggering boredom as she discovers a curious detachment in herself, an inability to navigate the world as others do. Hoping to be cleansed of whatever ails her, she travels to the coast to visit the sea. But there she finds herself unraveling, uncertain of what is inside her. Lying in the sun with her toes in the sand by day while psychologically dissolving in her hotel room by night, she soon reaches the peak of her inner crisis and must grapple with whether and how she can take hold of her own existence. An extraordinary examination of a young woman's estrangement from the world that only Marguerite Duras could have written, The Easy Life is a work of unsettling beauty and insight, and a bold, spellbinding journey into the depths of the human heart."--
Uniform Title
Vie tranquille. English
Alternative Title
Vie tranquille.
Subject
  • Psychic trauma > Fiction
  • Grief > Fiction
  • Tragedy > Fiction
  • Death > Fiction
  • Identity (Philosophical concept) > Fiction
  • Vacations > Fiction
  • Death
  • Grief
  • Identity (Philosophical concept)
  • Psychic trauma
  • Tragedy
  • Vacations
  • France > Fiction
  • France
Genre/Form
Fiction.
Note
  • "There are many translations for the word "tranquille" in the title La vie tranquille, but we were quickly convinced by the The easy life for our rendition."--Page 187.
Call Number
JFD 23-780
ISBN
  • 9781635578515
  • 1635578515
  • 9781526662415
  • 1526662418
  • 9781526648655 (canceled/invalid)
  • 1526648652 (canceled/invalid)
OCLC
1289241588
Author
Duras, Marguerite, author.
Title
The easy life / Marguerite Duras ; translated by Emma Ramadan and Olivia Baes ; foreword by Kate Zambreno.
Publisher
New York : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2022.
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Added Author
Ramadan, Emma, translator.
Baes, Olivia, translator.
Zambreno, Kate, author foreword.
Other Form:
ebook version : 9781526648655
Research Call Number
JFD 23-780
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