This also contributes probably to the feeling that there are two worlds: the usual one, most people used to believe in living in and the other subtle and hidden world of person’s desires and feelings. The story is told from the third person and then suddenly from the main heroin herself. The novel is absolutely far from simple romantic stories with happy ends, somehow it seems even to break the limits of the permitted relations for such a young girl, but this never makes it perfunctory or obscene. The memories seem to be so deep and so emotional that a person would never be able either to forget them or to get rid of them. The author perfectly shows how human mind can rapidly recollect the events of the past and mix them with the present surrounding world. At the very beginning the reader is not able to catch the thread of narration, however, really quickly he is amazed by novel. The short book of around 100 pages looks like an experiment, due to its style of recollecting ideas and images. The novel mixes up the present events with the past events. The book is written in an unusual manner, not presenting the chronological sequences of the events and thoughts, this is more a collection of memories, feelings and dreams. The main heroine of the novel is 15, the same was the age of Duras when she had this love affair. He died at the same city where they met for the first time. The last information that she received about him was that he became born Christian and that he really loved his family. For example the real lover of the author was also Chinese and his name was Lee. The Lover is without double an autobiographical novel and there are some facts confirming this. She was considered to belong also to Nouveau roman literally movement in France.
Mostly her works were of an unusual style and full of romanticism. Some time later, Duras also published another book, which was a little bit different from the first one under the name – L’Armant de la Chine du Nord.
There was also a movie shot after this novel, the director of which was Jean-Jasques Annaud. This novel was translated into 43 languages and in the year 1984 it received the Prix Goncourt reward. She wrote a number of novels, plays, short stories, was the director of several films, but her best selling book was The Lover ( L’Armant in French). Later on she decided to take up law in the native county of her parents – France, but instead developed her talent as a writer.
In order to do this, we have to stop a little on the personality of the author, this is really important for understanding the style and main ideas of the novel. In this paper we are going to analyze, to try to look deeper or even may be to feel the main ideas, concerns, themes of the famous novel of Marguerite Duras “The Love”.