Details Audiobook:
- author: Marguerite Duras
- full title: The Impudent Ones
- narrator: Suzanne Toren
- genre: literary fiction
- topics: #family, #relationships, #gossip, #romance, #scandal
- publisher: HighBridge Audio
- publish date: 20.04.2021
- timing: 7:48:00
Details Book:
- pages: 256
- publisher: The New Press
- publish date: 09.03.2021
My Rating:
- content: 💙💙💙💙
- narration: 💙💙💙💙💙
Excerpt from the Book:
Maud often thought about no longer coming home. However, each evening brought her back. Her attitude might have seemed strange, but it was also that of her brothers and stepfather, who, in spite of themselves, never failed to reappear every evening, just as they had for such a long time! Had they been transported to the ends of the earth, they would have come back one day or another, feeling the strong pull of the family circle, where nothing, not even idleness, could lessen the interest they had for one anoother. In reality, no matter how much they repeated that they were going to leave, none of them really thought about it seriously.
My Thoughts
It's difficult to rate the work of a great author like Marguerite Duras, and it is even more difficult not to compare it to her excellent novels, like The Lover.I first read the book, and then I listened to an audiobook. It is an interesting experience to listen to an audiobook after you've already read the book. I enjoyed it both times, and it was different each time.
The story is pretty slow-paced but beautifully written. The prose contains captivating descriptions of surroundings and nature. In The Impudent Ones, Duras depicts family relationships and conflicts in a bourgeois family, and inside this novel, there are romances, gossip, and scandals. It is partly autobiographical, partly a work of fiction. This novel is a real treat for literary fiction fans, and I would recommend it to that type of reader.
About the Author
Marguerite Germaine Marie Donnadieu (4 April 1914 – 3 March 1996), known as Marguerite Duras was a French novelist, playwright, screenwriter, essayist, and experimental filmmaker. Her script for the film Hiroshima mon amour (1959) earned her a nomination for Best Original Screenplay at the Academy Awards.
Duras was the author of many novels, plays, films, interviews, essays, and works of short fiction, including her best-selling, highly fictionalized autobiographical work L'Amant (1984), translated into English as The Lover, which describes her youthful affair with a Chinese-Vietnamese man. It won the Prix Goncourt in 1984.
