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From the Publisher:
Review of Wartime Notebooks:
The work cuts to the bone: distressing and illuminating as the texts are about the nature of war and the self, and the eroticism of grief and violence...Enough to make you change your view of history - Fay Weldon

From the Inside Flap:
Marguerite Duras was one of the leading intellectuals and novelists of post-war France. Throughout her life and to her dying breath, this astonishing woman never ceased to embrace national and international fame. Undoubtedly, she owed her success to her obstinacy to be and remain herself, come what may and at whatever cost to her person.
It has long been known that Duras had kept four notebooks in a blue closet in her country home in France. But until now no one recognised just how important was the material she had written between 1943 and 1949. Here are the first drafts of her most famous works, the true stories behind The Love, La Douleur and other crucial texts.
Her notebooks retrace the formative experiences in Duras' life: her difficult, poignant childhood in Indochina, and in wartime her harrowing wait for her husband's return from a concentration camp. These are intimate documents, chronicling each hope and disappointment with a spontaneity and authenticity that make for an unparalleled sense of closeness with the reader. Here is Duras as a teenager, a young woman, a wife and a mother. Here is Duras the writer, frustrated by her perceived failings; distraught to see the episodes of her life fading away, eroded by the passing of time.
As an insight into the life and work of a major European writer this is an utterly absorbing volume.

About the Author:
Marguerite Duras was one of France's outstanding authors and playwrights of the second half of the 20th century, perhaps most famous for the film Hiroshima, Mon Amour. She came to be celebrated in late life for two bestselling works, published in Britain as THE LOVER and LA DOULEUR