The Lover, Wartime Notebooks, Practicalities - Marguerite Duras essays by queer theorist Jack

essays by queer theorist Jack Halberstam and AI research scientist Murray Shanahan

contemporaneous experiments in concrete poetry and the British conceptual art practices of the 1960s and 1970s

250 x 210mm

but a book in its own right — the real ciné-roman announced in the film’s credits

edition one

The Lover, Wartime Notebooks, Practicalities - Marguerite Duras essays by queer theorist JackMarguerite Duras was one of the leading intellectuals and novelist of post war France, but her wartime writings were not published in full until after her death. The Wartime Notebooks trace Duras's formative experiences including her difficult childhood in Indochina and her harrowing wait for her husband's return from Nazi internment revealing the personal history behind her bestselling novels. The Lover is the best known of these; set in pre war