Marguerite Duras’s The Lover

Finally finished this book after having borrowed it for a very, very long time. Beginning was difficult to get into, but once I started to understand the style of Duras’ writing, the flow of reading was much better. Anyway, short book about a pretty controversial topic, but was interesting to see what times were like back then and to read about the girl’s description of her family. The poetic style might be appealing to many, but it wasn’t for me. The events described were everywhere and it became difficult to follow sometimes, but it’s part of the fun when one has to piece it all together (?). All in all, somewhat interesting, but not at all my favourite. The ending is quite good, though.