Moderato Cantabile

Marguerite Duras author Richard Seaver translator

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Alma Books Ltd

Published:25th Jan '18

Should be back in stock very soon

Moderato Cantabile cover

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

A distressed young man murders the woman he loves in a cafe, watched by a large crowd. Fascinated by the crime she has witnessed, Anne Desbaresdes returns several times to the scene, forming a relationship with a man who also saw the murder, and drinking through the afternoon with him as he patiently answers her eager questions. Slowly, they find themselves being taken over by forces which threaten their own stability. Moderato Cantabile is a carefully woven tapestry of emotion, in which the characters' inner lives are reflected by the story's spaces and landscapes.

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 *

ISBN: 9780714544557

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 149g

150 pages