Book· 1984· Literary

L'Amant (The Lover)

by Marguerite Duras

L'Amant (The Lover): 1 recorded work traces back to it.

Open on the map

What L'Amant (The Lover) influenced

Works that record this one as a source, with the evidence a contributor gave.

The Lover

Film · 1992

AdaptationHIGH

Jean-Jacques Annaud's film is based on Marguerite Duras's semi-autobiographical 1984 novel of a French girl's affair with a wealthy Chinese man in 1929 Indochina.

See the connection and its discussion1
Open on the mapAdd a connection

About the work

L'Amant (The Lover)

Set against the backdrop of French colonial Vietnam, The Lover reveals the intimacies and intricacies of a clandestine romance between a pubescent girl from a financially strapped French family and an older, wealthy Chinese-Vietnamese man. The Lover is an autobiographical novel by Marguerite Duras, published in 1984 by Les Éditions de Minuit. It has been translated into 43 languages and was awarded the 1984 Prix Goncourt. It was adapted to film in 1992 as The Lover.

View on Open LibraryGoodreads Reviews