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      Destroy, She Said

      by Marguerite Duras
      Published
      Sep 1986
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      144
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      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 sophisticated dalliance among the four serves to obscure an underlying violence, which, when the curtain of civilization is drawn aside, reveals in her fellow guests a very contemporary, perhaps even new, form of insanity.


       


      Like many of Marguerite Duras's novels, Destroy, She Said owes much to cinema, displaying a skillful interplay of dialogue and description. There are recurring moods and motifs from the Duras repertoire: eroticism, lassitude, stifled desire, a beautiful woman, a mysterious forest, a desolate provincial hotel.


       


      Included in this volume is an in-depth interview with Duras by Jacques Rivette and Jean Narboni.

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      First Edition Sep 1986 Grove Press ISBN13 9780394623269 ISBN10 0394623266
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      Jan 1994 Grove Press ISBN13 9780802151544 ISBN10 080215154X
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      Jul 2015 Grove/Atlantic, Inc. ISBN13 9780802190574 ISBN10 080219057X
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