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The Easy Life is the story of Francine Veyrenattes, a twenty-five-year-old woman who already feels like life is passing her by. After witnessing a series of tragedies on her family farm, she alternates between intense grief and staggering boredom as she discovers a curious detachment in herself, an inability to navigate the world as others do.
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Nov 27, 2022 · Produced during World War II when writing was still a romantic act, “The Easy Life” is an understandably simpler and more homespun book than “The Lover,” from its rural setting to its skein of a...
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Dec 2, 2022 · In contrast to its title, The Easy Life is a hot, intense book, throwing us into the fervid life of 25-year-old Francine in the village of Les Bugues in south-west France. “Jérôme walked back...
Dec 6, 2022 · For the first time in English, literary icon Marguerite Duras's foundational masterpiece about a young woman's existential breakdown in the deceptively peaceful French countryside. The Easy Life is the story of Francine Veyrenattes, a twenty-five-year-old woman who already feels like life is passing her by.
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Jan 4, 2024 · Originally published in her native France in 1944, this extraordinary novel is about a young woman dealing with the aftermath of two family tragedies in close succession. It’s essentially a coming-of-age tale (told in the first person) and is divided into three parts.
Dec 12, 2022 · The Easy Life. Marguerite Duras (trans. Emma Ramadan and Olivia Baes) December 12, 2022. The following is from Marguerite Duras's foundational masterpiece The Easy Life, now available for the first time in English. Duras was one of France’s most important and prolific writers.
An extraordinary examination of a young woman's estrangement from the world that only Marguerite Duras could have written, The Easy Life is a work of unsettling beauty and insight, and a bold, spellbinding journey into the depths of the human heart.
