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Name: The War
Author: Marguerite Duras

Marguerite Duras’ manuscript, written in 1944 and released in 1985, offers a vivid personal account of the heroine of *The Lover* during the Nazi Occupation and the early months of Liberation in Paris. Married and embedded in a Resistance network led by François Mitterrand, Duras recounts nursing her starving husband, returned from Belsen, back to life; interrogating a suspected collaborator; and navigating a tense cat‑and‑mouse game with an intrigued Gestapo officer. Her narrative provides a moving, harrowing glimpse into the daily realities and moral dilemmas faced by Parisians under occupation.

First publish date: 1986

Genre: Memoir/Personal Memoir

Authors: Marguerite Duras

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