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The Malady of Death | Marguerite Duras

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A man hires a woman to spend several weeks with him by the sea. The woman is no one in particular, a "she," a warm, moist body with a beating heart—the enigma of Other. Skilled in the mechanics of sex, he desires through her to penetrate a different mystery: he wants to learn to love. It isn't a matter of will, she tells him. Still, he wants to try . . . This beautifully wrought erotic novel is an extended haiku on the meaning of love, "perhaps a sudden lapse in the logic of the universe,” and its absence, "the malady of death."

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The Malady of Death | Marguerite Duras

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My uncle gave me a few dozen books he was getting rid of, and this one seemed like a quick read, especially since I want to read more fiction in translation.

I kind of hate it a little? I don't know. I definitely did not enjoy myself. The prose was weird and vague, and I definitely think a lot of the intent was lost in translation. It also got rapey and murdery in a way that was not enjoyable for me. I don't know. Not for me.

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