![]() ![]() The man is a homosexual who one summer night is awe-struck by the glimpse of a heterosexual foreigner in the company of a woman. ![]() “Blue Eyes, Black Hair” dramatizes, in claustrophobic reductive scenes, the sexual suffering of an unnamed man and woman at a French seaside resort. Thematically, the new book follows a continuum begun more than 20 years ago with “The Ravishing of Lol Stein,” a compelling analysis of sexual self-destruction. Indeed, “Blue Eyes, Black Hair” most strongly resembles that book, though the earlier work kept much of the sexual anxiety suppressed in favor of a larger theme of revolutionary politics. ![]() ![]() One of her finest novels, “Destroy, She Said,” Duras turned into a film that she directed. Her novel, “The Lover,” received enormous acclaim in 1985, followed closely by “The Malady of Death” and now “Blue Eyes, Black Hair.” The three books retain the spare elliptical style for which Duras has long been noted, a style born in part out of her film work (“Hiroshima, Mon Amour”) and a brief identification with the nouveau roman of the ‘50s and ‘60s. Long recognized in Europe as a novelist specializing in psycho-sexual distress, Marguerite Duras has only recently found a wide American audience. ![]()
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