Il Rapimento Di Lol V. Stein by Marguerite Duras
A woman’s life is reshaped by a single traumatic rupture at a dance that seems to have detached her from ordinary time and identity; thereafter she becomes an enigma observed and reconstructed by others. The narrative follows those fixated on her—friends, lovers, and an obsessive narrator—who attempt to piece together what really happened and what her silence and repetitions mean. The supposed “abduction” functions less as a plot event than as a lens on memory, desire, possession and the collapse of agency, while the novel itself unfolds in elliptical, haunting fragments that emphasize feeling and perception over straightforward explanation.
- Published
- 1964
- Nationality
- French
- Length
- Very Short
- Pages
- 120-160
- Original Language
- French
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- Alternate Titles
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- Le Ravissement de Lol V. Stein
- The Ravishing of Lol V. Stein
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