Pain (the Complete Works of Duras 8)
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Volume 8 of "The Complete Works of Duras" includes seven novels and novels published by Duras between 1967 and 1985: "The English Mistress", "Abbarn, Sabana, David", "Pain", "Mr. Pierre Rabie", "Alber's Security Guards in the Capital", "Broken Nettles" and "Aurelia Paris". They are Duras's fictional works based on social news and exploring the themes of war, race and emotion. "The Mistress of England" tells the story of the murder of Marie-Thérèse, who was deaf and mute. The murderer brutally cut her body into pieces and threw her body from a nearby viaduct into a train carriage passing below. The story of "Abaan, Sabana, David" takes place in the "Jewish House" in Stadt. There is a large dark park nearby and a forest in the distance. In the house, Sabana and David were ordered to guard a Jew who was about to be executed. In fact, the Jews are two people with the same name: Abaan. One of them is mute, and the other speaks. They are waiting for the dawn, waiting for the arrival of the leader of the Gringo Party... "Pain" is a semi-autobiographical novel by Margaret Duras, written in the 1940s. The manuscript was discovered in the author's country house more than 40 years later and was published in 1985. Duras once said: "'Pain' is one of the most important experiences in my life. It would be inappropriate to call it 'writing'." Focusing on the theme of the German occupation of France in World War II, it cuts through the perspectives of the wives of resistance members, the Gestapo, informants, French enemy elements, and Jewish girls. It profoundly exposes the inhumane atrocities of the Nazis and reflects on the alienated humanity in the war.
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