The War: A Memoir
- ISBN-10
- 1565842219
- ISBN-13
- 9781565842212
- Series
- The War
- Category
- Biography & Autobiography
- Pages
- 183
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1994
- Author
- Marguerite Duras
Description
The extraordinary pages of The War, written in 1944 but finished in 1985, form a totally new image of the heroine of The Lover and, through her, of Paris during the Nazi occupation and the first months of liberation. Married and living in Paris, part of a resistance network headed by Francois Mitterand, Duras is swept up in the turmoil of the period. She tells of nursing her starving husband back to life on his return from Bergen-Belsen, interrogating a suspected collaborator, and playing a game of cat and mouse with a Gestapo officer who is attracted to her. The result is a book as moving as it is harrowing--perhaps Duras's finest.
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