No More

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Composed during the last year of her life and only completed just days before her death, NO MORE (C'EST TOUT) embodies Duras's constant idea that absolute love is both necessary (sex)...and impossible to achieve (death). A bilingual edition in both English and French, it represents pure' literature shorn of all its niceties, a shout from the depths of Duras's being, celebrating life in defiance of the death she new awaited her.'

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Duras' language and writing shine like crystals.The New Yorker

It is at once pure artifice, a literary mind in its death throes, and also the rawest thing she's ever written. For all her French sex-kitten affectations, Duras was a micromanager-author, and here she orchestrates even her own annihilation, a bonfire of self-loathing using lovers, past and present, as kindling.Los Angeles Times Book Review

Marguerite Duras's voice, whenever we hear it, always goes straight for our hearts.Le Monde

Here is laid bare, without doubt, one of the most beautiful secrets of the song of Duras a song of shadows, drawn from the silent hours of days, and a kind of victory over them. La Croix

Simple, naked affirmation of her crazy love.Le Soir

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MARGUERITE DURAS is one of the towering figures in 20th century French literature. Author of of over 73 books, mostly novels (including The Vice-Consul, The English Lover, The North China Lover, and the bestselling The Lover), but also original screenplays such as India Song and Hiroshima Mon Amour, which won the International Critics Prize at the Cannes Film Festival and the New York Film Critics Award, and memoirs including The War. About Marguerite Duras Germaine Bre has written, "Love, the fierceness of love, the happiness, the pain, the compelling and destructive power of love is Marguerite Duras's essential theme.