Summer 1980
About This Novel
Ten summer reflections; seeing the world through Duras's eyes; poetic expressions of ordinary life. In early 1980, the editor-in-chief of Liberation invited Duras to write articles of any length for one year. Duras responded: One year is impossible, three months is possible, because summer lasts for three months, one article per week. Hence the book "Summer of 1980". In the windy and rainy summer of 1980, Duras looked at the black rocks, wet beach and sea from his balcony. In the summer of 1980, in the summer of Gdansk, the world condensed in her eyes: the Moscow Olympics, Polish workers' strikes, famine in Uganda, the funeral of the Shah of Iran, Russian tanks in Kabul... In the summer of 1980, "the summer when our story takes place", Jan Andrea Steinay, the last lover in Duras's life, knocked on her door and officially entered her life. In the summer of 1980, the summer of the gray-eyed boy, who neither swam nor sang, was perhaps Duras himself. "This book suddenly appeared in a terrifying loneliness, gaining eternity due to its sudden interruption."
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