While adapting French novelist Marguerite Duras' (1914-1996) The Dogs of Prague for the stage, Pia Forsgren, Director of The Jewish Theatre in Stockholm, compiled an extraodinary anthology-cum-dossier on Duras. This magnificent two-volume edition consists of 40 short memoirs and portrait-essays on Duras with extensive documentation focusing on her activism for the Resistance, and for the French Communist Party as a comrade of Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir and Jeanne Moreau (volume one); and a magnificent collection ...
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While adapting French novelist Marguerite Duras' (1914-1996) The Dogs of Prague for the stage, Pia Forsgren, Director of The Jewish Theatre in Stockholm, compiled an extraodinary anthology-cum-dossier on Duras. This magnificent two-volume edition consists of 40 short memoirs and portrait-essays on Duras with extensive documentation focusing on her activism for the Resistance, and for the French Communist Party as a comrade of Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir and Jeanne Moreau (volume one); and a magnificent collection of 360 color and black-and-white photographs of Duras, from a passport photo of the little French-Vietnamese girl to her son Jean Mascolo's wonderful portrait of an aged grande dame (volume two). The book's paper jackets mimic worn faux-leather passport bindings; one features Duras' 'stamped' initials, and the other features a specially designed 'compass portrait' of the author, with such points of orientation as Politics, Writing, Passion, Indo-China, Alcohol, Mother, War and Eroticism. Limited stock available.
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Seller's Description:
Near fine in near fine jacket. Two volumes. Illustrated abundantly in color and in black and white. 225 pages; unpaginated, around 230 pages. Large 8vo, printed pictorial wrappers and d.w. designed to look like worn passports. Stockholm: The Jewish Theatre, (2007). A near fine set in near fine dust wrappers. Volume I ISBN: 9789197716321; Volume II ISBN: 9789197716307.
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2-voluume set. Good-Bumped and creased book with tears to the extremities, but not affecting the text block, may have remainder mark or previous owner's name-GOOD Oversized.