The Sailor from Gibraltar
Author(s): Marguerite Duras
Disaffected, bored with his career at the French Colonial Ministry (where he has copied out birth and death certificates for eight years), and disgusted by a mistress whose vapid optimism arouses his most violent misogyny, the narrator finds himself at the point of complete breakdown while vacationing in Florence. After leaving his mistress and the Ministry behind forever, he joins the crew of The Gibraltar, a yacht captained by Anna, a beautiful American in perpetual search of her sometime lover, a young man known only as the 'Sailor from Gibraltar.'
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"Charming... all sun and sea and beautiful people making love... a very attractive book."
Marguerite Duras wrote dozens of plays, film scripts, and novels, including "The Ravishing of Lol Stein," "The Sea Wall," and "Hiroshima, Mon Amour." She's most well known for "The Lover" which received the Goncourt prize in 1984 and was made into a film in 1992. Barbara Bray translated several works by Marguerite Duras, including "The Malady of Death," "The Lover," and "The War." In addition, she has translated Jean Genet, Ismail Kadare, and Tahar Ben Jelloun, and has received the French-American Foundation Translation Prize.
General Fields
- :
- : Open Letter
- : Open Letter
- : 0.379
- : 01 September 2013
- : 216mm X 140mm X 21mm
- : United States
- : books
Special Fields
- : Marguerite Duras
- : Paperback
- : 318
- : FA