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A fantastic example of Noveau Roman, Moderata Cantabile was the book that made Duras's famous

About the Author

Prix Goncourt winner Marguerite Duras (1914–96) is one of the most influential figures in French postwar literature, with The Sea Wall, The Lover and Moderato Cantabile among her most famous novels.

Reviews

Duras’s sentences lodge themselves slowly in the reader’s mind until they detonate with all the force of fused feeling and thought.
*The New York Times Book Review*