· Fiction – paperback; Calder; pages; Translated from the French by Richard Seaver. I’ve been keen to read more books by Marguerite Duras having loved The Lover a few years ago. Much of her work appears to be out of print, or at least difficult to track down, so when I saw Moderato Cantabile on the shelves at Waterstone’s a month or so ago I just had to buy bltadwin.ruted Reading Time: 4 mins. Moderato cantabile. by. Marguerite Duras. · Rating details · 4, ratings · reviews. A distressed young man murders the woman he loves in a café, watched by a large crowd. Fascinated by the crime she has witnessed, Anne Desbaresdes returns several times to the scene, forming a relationship with a man who also saw the murder, and drinking through the afternoon with him as he /5. · Marguerite Duras. ‘Moderto Cantabile’ is the somewhat innocuous story of two strangers, Anne Desbaresdes and Chauvin, who meet at a seedy café every day for a week, following the murder of a young woman by her love outside that café. The sparseness of the language coalesces with the repetition of various symbols (the sunset, a magnolia flower and tugboats) which only serve to add to Estimated Reading Time: 3 mins.
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Moderato Cantabile is a romance novel that established its author, the Frenchwoman Marguerite Duras, as a major critical and popular success. Written in French, the novel’s title comes from musical directions on a piece of sheet music which translate roughly to “moderately and singingly.”. The book tells the story of a rich industrialist’s wife who enters into a friendship with a younger, unemployed man after she witnesses a horrifying act of violence. I’ve been keen to read more books by Marguerite Duras having loved The Lover a few years ago. Much of her work appears to be out of print, or at least difficult to track down, so when I saw Moderato Cantabile on the shelves at Waterstone’s a month or so ago I just had to buy it. Moderato Cantabile is a novel by Marguerite Duras. It was very popular, selling half a million copies, and was the initial source of Duras' fame.
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