Summer rain

Summer Rain

* Duras's story "Summer Rain" writes about childhood, family, love, growth, and loneliness.
* "I often think of those people, those I abandoned. One day, I started writing about them on set in Vitry."
Ernesto lives in a poor immigrant family, with parents who lack means of livelihood and are weak-willed, and six younger siblings to care for... But the harsh environment doesn't stop him from feeling happy. He is intoxicated by his subtle relationship with his sister Jeanne, while also being conflicted and tormented by morality... After a heavy rain, his bittersweet life ends, childhood ends, and the family goes their separate ways.
"Summer Rain" is a novella written by Duras in 1990. Its themes include family relationships, sibling affection, morality, accidental and fatal love, loneliness, pain, healing, and happiness. The interweaving of reality and illusion, and language that appears fragmented and disjointed on the surface but has a long, lingering resonance within, all showcase the characteristics of the author's late work.
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1. Marguerite Duras is an internationally renowned modern French writer with a wide readership. Starting with self-writing, she created numerous novels, essays, plays, and films. She is a classic author who entered the public eye, and also a film artist with global influence. The French "Bibliothèque de la Pléiade" published her complete works, marking her entry into the "Pantheon of Literature" and becoming an immortal representative. Her plays entered the classic repertoire of the Comédie-Française, and her novels are even included in the French high school examination syllabus. Duras, with her unique artistic style and refreshing narrative approach, constructed a milestone in modern narrative art. As the famous French writer Alain Robbe-Grillet said: "Marguerite Duras harbors a subversive power in her narrative."
2. "Summer Rain" is a novella written by Duras in 1990. Its themes include family relationships, sibling affection, morality, accidental and fatal love, loneliness, pain, healing, and happiness. The interweaving of reality and illusion, and language that appears fragmented and disjointed on the surface but has a long, lingering resonance within, all showcase the characteristics of the author's late work.
3. In the shantytowns on the outskirts of Paris, a group of "wild children" forgotten by society resist the world and the "etiquette of life" with their bodies and shouts. Duras, with a somewhat bizarre, ethereal, fragmented yet tender touch, writes an allegory of marginal survival in "Summer Rain." Parents, siblings, lovers, strangers... all encounters are like summer rain – suddenly arriving, washing away the heat, and then evaporating without a trace when the scorching sun reappears. Duras captures the essential paradox in human connections, a transient sociology of intimacy like summer rain: we desperately embrace, yet are destined to be scattered by fate; and it is precisely those "unresolved" stories that define the evidence of a life lived.

2026-04-30

上海译文出版社

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9787580702197