The Lover

”Very early in my life it was too late.”

Deeply disturbing, profoundly sad, and achingly beautiful.

This is an autobiographical work by Marguerite Duras, and we are transported to Saigon and her childhood days through her effortless and gorgeous prose.

Her life was difficult and she shows us this in weirdly detached way. She can see herself from outside, and we see her writing and seeing herself from outside.

I have a whole in my heart and a lump on my throat. This is a very sad book and I'm feeling emotionally drained.

“...I feel a sadness I expected and which comes only from myself. I say I've always been sad. That I can see the same sadness in photos of myself when I was small. That today, recognizing it as the sadness I've always had,”

Gorgeously beautiful! I couldn't recommend it more.

And then he told her. Told her that it was as before, that he still loved her, he could never stop loving her, that he'd love her until death.

P.S: the movie is also very worth it!