The creative process of lovers

Duras was seventy years old when he wrote Lover. She left her birthplace in Vietnam at the age of 18 and went to Paris to study. She studied law, mathematics and political science, but fell in love with literature and embarked on a career of professional writing. Lover can be said to be an autobiographical novel, at least with a strong autobiographical color. The novel begins with a 16-year-old French girl who meets a rich young master in China while crossing the river. Along this narrative clue, a crazy and desperate love tragedy is rendered.

The novel "Lover" is said to have originated from a photo album about Duras' life and her movies compiled by marguerite duras's son Jean Mascolo, named "Absolute Image"; The title of this album is dedicated to Bruno Noitan (a famous and talented film photographer in contemporary France); The pictures collected in the album are self-contained, but there is a central picture, that is, crossing the river on the ferry, which is unique, but from the overall perspective of the album, missing pictures can be seen everywhere. There are 80 pages of explanatory text in the photo album. After typing these words on the typewriter, Duras' life partner, Jan Andrea, thought these words were redundant and unnecessary, and suggested that Duras write another novel based on them. Duras also sent the album together with the explanatory text to the publishing house, and the response was cold. This is the origin of the novel. It can be seen that the novel Lover is closely related to the writer's personal life, with autobiographical factors, and also closely related to the writer's literary and film (drama) creation activities.

Of course, a novel can't be equated with an autobiographical biography, and it shouldn't just belong to a story. A work contains more content than a plot. Jerome Landon, the publisher of the novel Lover, pointed out: "She was advised to delete some paragraphs, but I encouraged her to keep them, especially the one about Betty Fernand Daisy, which is the most interesting part of the book, because it shows that the theme of the book is by no means a story of a French girl and a China. In my opinion, this is the love history between marguerite duras and the source of all her works. Lovers represent many roles ... "This opinion may be in line with the actual situation of a literary work. Marguerite duras's views on writing mentioned above are actually mentioned more than once in the novel, but they are vague. Obviously, when I write, I must avoid them and write. On other occasions, Duras rarely talks about literary issues. After all, this problem is also an aspect that can't be ignored in Lover. If you look carefully, you may find some news.

The author's family life and colonial life are not irrelevant, which is the background of the story. If I hadn't been born in such a poor family, I wouldn't have appeared in public, let alone interacted with China fans for money. Maybe I finally fell in love with China's lover, but it didn't start for love. The contrast between the life of the upper class and the lower class in the colony can be used as the background music of the story, and it can also reflect the author's thinking about life. Everyone's life is imperfect and full of despair. There are many things in the colony. The author wrote a story about a noble lady whose lover committed suicide because of her despair. The confusing and desperate life background, coupled with a desperate love, increases the depth and intensity of the work. The author writes these things calmly, with beautiful theme and background, despair and lament. This makes this love unusual and becomes a love in a specific historical stage and social background. At the same time, this work does not fall into the cliche of love stories, giving it a broader era and social significance.