A petty bourgeois reader alongside Kundera, Haruki Murakami and Eileen Chang, an artist rich in legendary life experiences, shocking rebellious character, and colorful love, a writer regarded as the pride of contemporary French culture, A writer who led the world's literary fashion - Duras.

Marguerite Duras (April 4, 1914 - March 3, 1996), formerly known as Margaret Toradio, was born in France Saigon, Indochina, graduated from the University of Paris, French writer, film director.

Duras's life was shocking and bohemian. She even declared: "If I were not a writer, I would be a prostitute." In Duras's eyes, love and sex are both Importantly, this has a lot to do with her unique experience.

In 1914, Marguerite Duras was born in Jiading City, Indochina (later Saigon/Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam). Her father was a mathematics teacher, and her mother, Po Leno (Cambodia), was a teacher in a local primary school. She had two brothers. Her father died in 1921.

Duras was only 15 years old when she met the first man in her life, a Chinese man named Li Yuntai. Li Yuntai helped her family tide over the difficulties and was her first lover who she will never forget. At that time, she was still living in the land of China. He and she were neither childhood sweethearts nor well-matched. The relationship between them was just that of a rich Chinese young man and his French mistress. This relationship was destined to be fruitless. In the end, she left the Mekong River forever with trauma. This emotional past was buried for more than fifty years before being revealed to the world. Hence "Lover".

After returning to France, Duras had constant affairs. Her husband, Robert Antelme, was a friend of her previous lover. There was even a complicated love triangle between the three. In the end, the two failed to grow together because they had cheated on each other. Robert fell in love with a young woman, and Duras was obsessed with the handsome Dionis Mascoro. During this period, Duras created He has written many works such as "The Shameless Man", "The Dam Holding Back the Pacific Ocean", "The Sound of the Piano is Like a Complaint", etc.

It is a pity that Dionis could not become her final partner. Duras met Gérard Jarreault. Similar people will always attract each other. Jarreault, like Duras, has madness buried in his bones. When the two of them were together, they wandered at night together and indulged in love. Drinking for company and even beating each other up. This crazy life finally ended with Jarro's death.

For many years after this, the men around Duras changed around until Jan Andrea appeared. Young was 39 years younger than Duras. Out of his admiration for Duras, he stayed with Duras and took care of her until her death. Young was a huge fan of Duras, whom he had read from an early age, but the two met for the first time in 1975, when Duras attended a symposium in Cannes. , after the discussion, Young took out "Destroy, She Said" for Duras to sign, and expressed his desire to write to her.

The story begins when Duras leaves Young the address of his residence in Paris. Young wrote frequently to Duras and had many conversations, sometimes about his work, sometimes just a few brief excerpts, for five years. They met after Duras was recovering from an illness caused by alcoholism, and Young's company gave Duras great comfort until the last moment of Duras's life.

After Duras's death, Young completely closed himself off and even committed suicide. Three years later, Young published "Duras the Lover" to commemorate his years with Duras. In the book, he wrote:

The story of Duras ends here, But "Lover" doesn't.

The novel "Lover" originally originated from a family photo album. When she was looking for photos, she found photos of herself as a girl in Cochin China, and remembered the Chinese man she had almost forgotten. ’s revival, a love story between a white girl and a Chinese man is also taking shape.

As more and more words were written, Young suggested that Duras use them to write another novel.

"Lover" is an autobiographical novel, but it is not equivalent to an autobiographical work. It is a creation based on the author's own life experience when he was young. "Most of this book is based on Made up of things that have been said in the past.” He is one of the few financial groups of Chinese origin that controls the real estate of the majority of residents in the colony. He has a mother who has passed away long ago, and a father who lies in bed and smokes opium all day long to manage property. In such an environment, it was destined that he would not have the courage to disobey his father, and it was destined that he would not be able to marry his beloved white girl. This love is so new, so strong, to separate her from her might be to break the bones and tendons.

People are products of society. She is white, but not an upper-class white person. She comes from the jungle. Her father died. Her mother relied on the meager income from teaching in a local elementary school to support her and her two brothers. She had no status at all. All of the above made her unpopular with white people until She became the mistress of a Chinese, and the wealthy people in Saigon even warned their daughters: "You are not allowed to talk to her, and that girl, because she slept with a Chinese." He was Chinese, and although he was rich, he was not allowed to Her family accepts it (all they see is his money), her family doesn't like him, and white people look down on him. At the same time, his father, who was always lying in bed and smoking, even threatened him to disqualify him as heir when he knew he had a white mistress and asked him to marry his fiancée as soon as possible. He asked for some time. But his father said that he would rather watch him die.

She asked, "Is she beautiful?"

He said, "She is rich."

Duras returned the favor in the book Characters were created based on the brother and mother: an eldest brother with a bad temper and no ambition to make progress, who always relied on his mother for support. He stole money from his mother and even servants just to smoke opium; a second brother who was weak in health, and finally Died of bronchopneumonia.

The end of the novel describes a phone call: He told her that he still loved her as before, that he could not help but love her, and that he loved her and would love her until he died. .

But "I am already old."

The article comes from the public account "Twilight Time Old Alley".