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Marguerite Duras once said: “If I hadn’t written, there would be one more prostitute in the world.”
This statement was shocking, and the female writer put it into practice through her writing. Today, we’ll look at her autobiographical novel, *The Lover*.
The novel begins like this:
I am old now. One day, a man came up to me and said to me, “I will always know you… I love your ravaged face now more than your face then.”
This novel tells the story of a deep yet hopeless love entanglement between a 15-year-old French white girl and a 27-year-old Chinese man.
This love affair was always intertwined with desire. For three whole years, the girl and the man warmed and drew closer to each other through sex, dispelling the gloom and unhappiness in their lives. Through the photosynthesis of sex, the two drew nourishment from each other’s bodies to cope with the complexities of life.
Forty years later, he still cared for her and remembered her. Even though he had grown old, she was still irreplaceable. That is why he made the heartfelt confession, “I love your ravaged face now more than your face then.”
This kind of love is enduring, deep in the bones, and transcends time and space.
How did this love, which defies the control of time, come about?
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Family in distress
The girl is French, but was born in Vietnam. Her father died when she was very young. She never received parental love growing up.
After coming to Yunnan, her mother used all her savings to buy a piece of land, but it turned out to be saline-alkali land unsuitable for cultivation. She was cheated, which led to the family’s financial ruin and hardship.
She had two older brothers. The eldest was fierce and violent, often abusing her and her younger brother, Paul. The second brother, Paul, was kind and gentle, but his personality became timid and cowardly due to the bullying he suffered at the hands of his eldest brother. Their mother doted on both sons, especially favoring the eldest.
The girl liked the older boy, but he died of bronchitis when he was a teenager.
The mother disliked girls and took out all her misfortune and suffering on them, often verbally abusing and beating them.
The girl scored 100 on her French test, but her mother wasn’t happy; she just regretted that it wasn’t her eldest son who got 100.
Living in such a family environment, the fifteen-and-a-half-year-old girl lacked love, care, and affection, and she also lacked money. So, she put on gold-threaded high heels, wore a fashionable men’s hat, and went out to flaunt herself. Soon, she attracted the attention of a wealthy Chinese man.
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Love is ever new
The daughter persuaded her mother to buy her a fashionable men’s hat and a pair of gold stilettos. Every day, she racked her brains to dress herself in a unique and beautiful way.
She applied her mother’s lipstick, put on gold-trimmed high heels, and applied Ubiquitous face powder, displaying a free-spiritedness and maturity unlike her peers.
A beautiful, rebellious young girl saw a Chinese man next to a luxurious Maserati while crossing a river by boat. Then, the elegant Chinese man walked towards her, looking timid and shy.
But the girl knew she had achieved her goal. She would be his.
Chinese men quickly become girls’ lovers.
Her Chinese lover comes from a wealthy family. He attended business school in Paris, drives a car, wears a diamond ring, and a silk coat, looking elegant and affluent.
The girl was tempted by diamonds and money; love is not simple from the beginning.
This man would be attractive to any woman, let alone a poor, naive young girl.
The girl sensed the man’s elegant and wealthy aura, so she got into his car and let him take her wherever he wanted.
After that, her Chinese lover would wait for her at the school gate every day in his luxurious extended Maserati, taking her to a fancy restaurant or a house in the downtown area.
The two men caressed each other in the house, indulging in sensual pleasures. The girl was domineering and proactive; she shook off the man’s hand as he tried to undress her, saying, “I’ll do it myself.” After undressing herself, she then helped the man undress.
She remained calm and patient, yet firm, pulling him close and beginning to undress him. She worked methodically and steadily, removing all his clothes. Then, she took him.
When they started making love, she could clearly feel a colorful warmth on her skin.
We cannot imagine where this vibrant color comes from. Perhaps it comes from a passionate love affair with a Chinese lover, or perhaps it is the fulfillment of a girl’s long-suppressed secret desires.
They made love; they loved each other.
Here, the satisfaction of desire symbolizes inner fulfillment. Desire, through sexual acts, fills all deficiencies, releases accumulated energy, and achieves a deep purification of the spirit and soul.
The man started crying, overwhelmed by a terrible love affair.
The girl was calm; this was a new and exciting field, and she was willing and even eager to try it.
Freud said: “Lust is a kind of hunger, a kind of power, and women can show great initiative in many ways.”
The girl boldly and proactively touched the man, repeatedly asking him to do it again. She not only experienced pleasure but also felt warmth.
He bathed me, showered me, wiped my body, rinsed me with water. He loved and praised me. He applied makeup to me, dressed me, loved me, and praised me. I was the most beloved person in his life.
The girl felt deeply loved by the man’s tender care. She began to confide in him, and her Chinese lover listened quietly. She told him that she had always wanted to write, and the man encouraged her, which made her feel very fulfilled.
After having a Chinese lover, her mother called her a little prostitute, but she didn’t refuse the man’s money. The girl developed a deeper attachment to the man.
Unfortunately, not every love story can blossom into a happy ending. The girl and the man’s love faced numerous difficulties, and their love was more or less marked by post-colonial factors. A white girl and a yellow-skinned Chinese man could not overcome the barriers of skin color and race, the dominance of culture, or their inner yearning for worldly acceptance.
As Marguerite Duras once said: Love is the dream of an immortal hero. It should disregard worldly gossip and represent the most sublime part of humanity. It is the opportunity for the soul to finally take flight. But the body is too heavy. Even in love, we still cannot fly.
This was the case for the girl and her Chinese lover. No matter how much they loved each other, breaking up was the only outcome.
It was precisely because of the long separation that the girl truly realized how profound and unforgettable this love was.
Some loves lose their warmth due to distance and space; others, however, can transcend the constraints of time and come gently from the distant past.
Love can be domineering and capricious at times, and indifferent and detached at others.
Perhaps love has nothing to do with whether one’s appearance is old or not, or whether one’s body is fresh or not. It is just an ordinary thing that is marked with the recipient’s address when it arrives. No matter how many times it goes around in a lifetime, it can never escape the name of the lover, and it remains fresh and new over time.
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In conclusion
This is a novel written by Marguerite Duras in her later years, with obvious autobiographical elements. It tells the tragic story of a short-lived and passionate love affair between a fifteen-and-a-half-year-old French girl and a Chinese man in a land without seasons, bearing the imprint of the female writer Marguerite Duras.
This is Duras’s self-redemption.
Yes, back then, she also had a Chinese lover. At the time, it was believed she was with him for money, a feeling that was shameful.
She spent forty years replaying and reflecting on her first love.
In this story, “The Lover,” the author recounts her youthful past while also expressing her nostalgia and reminiscence—the teenage girl, the innocent memories, and the bittersweet romance are things she cannot let go of.
After traversing forty years, she finally found peace, because she was certain that this was love.
Love is as scalding as lava. Even under the guise of “only loving his money,” and even if this doomed love is labeled as morally corrupt, they are still so passionate, loving in the heat of desire.
Perhaps only Marguerite Duras could write about the naked sexual relationship between lovers with such sincerity and naturalness.
Yes, you have to admit: desire is a part of love, and a very important part at that.
Just like the girl in the story, she was unloved by her parents and brothers in her impoverished family; being loved was a luxury. However, she refused to compromise and chose to fight back with love and desire, for it was the only way to survive.
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