Peaceful Life
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"A Quiet Life" is Margaret Duras's second novel published in 1944. The young heroine in "A Quiet Life" tells about her life: her uncle had an affair with her younger sister, she reported it to her younger brother, and her uncle was beaten to death by her younger brother; her younger brother's lover fell in love with her lover, and the younger brother committed suicide in despair; she witnessed another man drowning during a long trip... Despair of love, always shrouded in death. Emotional and sober language, a plot shrouded in the shadow of death. In a remote village, faced with poverty and hatred, a twenty-five-year-old woman yearns for life and love in loneliness. Life passes slowly and quickly amidst the surface calm and inner struggle...
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