Marguerite Duras

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  • Bibliography:
    29 Books
  • First Book:
    October 1975
  • Latest Book:
    December 2022
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Book List in Order: 29 titles

  • Suzanna Adler

  • Whole Days in the Trees

  • Sea Wall

  • The Sailor From Gibraltar

    "A haunting tale of strange and random passion.""-New York TimesDisaffected, bored with his career at the French Colonial Ministry (where he has copied out birth and death certificates for eight years), and disgusted by a mistress whose vapid optimis...

  • Ravishing of Lol Stein

    The Ravishing of Lol Stein is a haunting early novel by the author of The Lover. Lol Stein is a beautiful young woman, securely married, settled in a comfortable life -- and a voyeur. Returning with her husband and children to the town where, years b...

  • Destroy, She Said

    In this classic novel by the bestselling author of The Lover, erotic intrigue masks a chillingly deceptive form of madness.   Elisabeth Alione is convalescing in a hotel in rural France when she meets two men and another woman. The sophisti...

  • The Vice Consul

  • Blue Eyes, Black Hair

  • Emily L.



  • Two by Duras

  • Four Novels

    In this volume of four short novels, Duras demonstrates her remarkable ability to create an emotional intensity and unity by focusing on the intimate details of the relationships among only a few cental characters: from the park bench couple in "The ...

  • India Song

    Unseen voices narrate this story of the affair between the haunting Anne-Marie Stretter and the disgraced French vice-consul in Làhore. In the India of 1937, with the smell of laurels and leprosy permeating the air, the characters perform a dance of...

  • Malady of Death

    “[An] erotic, existential mystery . . . part philosophical meditation, part fantasy” from the Prix Goncourt-winning author of The Lover (The Guardian).A man hires a woman to spend several weeks with him by the sea. The woman is no one in particul...

  • Outside

  • The Lover

    A sensational international bestseller, and winner of Frances'' coveted Prix Goncourt, ''The Lover'' is an unforgettable portrayal of the incandescent relationship between two lovers, and of the hate that slowly tears the girl''s family apart.Saigon,...

  • The Man Sitting in the Corridor

    By one of the world¹s most acclaimed writers and author of The Lover One of France¹s leading literary figures, Marguerite Duras casts a brooding, elegant spell over her readers with her acute portrayals of love: its aphrodisiacal powers and its swe...

  • No More

    Sex, and death. All of Marguerite Duras's writings are suffused with the certitude that absolute love is both necessary (sex) ... and impossible to achieve (death). But no book of hers embodies this idea so powerfully, so excessively, as No More (C'e...

  • Trilogy: The Square, 10:30 on a Summer Night, the Afternoon of M. Andesmas

  • Yann Andrea Steiner

    Dedicated to Duras’ companion with whom she spent her last decade of life, Yann Andréa Steiner is a haunting dance between two parallel stories of love and solitude: the love between Duras and the young Yann Andréa and a seaside romance observed ...



  • The North China Lover

    Far more daring and truthful than any of her other novels, The North China Lover is a fascinating retelling of the dramatic experiences of Duras’s adolescence that shaped her most famous work. Initially conceived as notes toward a screenplay for...

  • Writing

    Writing, one of Marguerite Duras’s last works, is a meditation on the process of writing and on her need for solitude in order to do it. In the five short pieces collected in this volume, she explores experiences that had an emotional impact on ...

  • L'Amour

    "Duras's language and writing shine like crystals." -- New Yorker

    A man -- the traveler -- arrives in the seaside town of S. Thala with the intent to abandon his present, and instead finds himself abruptly reintroduced to his past. Through h...

  • Abahn Sabana David

    "Duras's language and writing shine like crystals." -- The New Yorker"A spectacular success. . . . Duras is at the height of her powers." -- Edmund WhiteAvailable for the first time in English, Abahn Sabana David is a late-career masterpiece from one...

  • The Suspended Passion

    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” -- ...

  • The Lover, Wartime Writings, Practicalities

    A hardcover omnibus edition of the French writer's most famous novel alongside her fascinating wartime writings and a collection of searingly honest and intimate autobiographical essays. Marguerite Duras was one of the leading intellectuals and n...

  • The Garden Square

  • The Impudent Ones

    Published for the first time in English, the debut novel of Marguerite Duras -- renowned author of The Lover and The War -- is the story of a family’s moral reckoning and a daughter’s fall from graceMarguerite Duras rose to global stardom with he...

  • The Easy Life

    For the first time in English, literary icon Marguerite Duras's foundational masterpiece about a young woman's existential breakdown in the deceptively peaceful French countryside.

    The Easy Life is the story of Francine Veyrenattes...

  • Summer Rain

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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Marguerite Duras has published 29 books.

Marguerite Duras does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Easy Life, was published in December 2022.

The first book by Marguerite Duras, Suzanna Adler, was published in October 1975.

No. Marguerite Duras does not write books in series.
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