Amanda Allard is an editorial intern at Big Sky Journal in Bozeman, Montana, where she writes about art and culture in the Northern Rockies. Amanda recently graduated from the University of Iowa with a degree in French literature. The Lover is her first work of translation to be published.
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In this short excerpt from the early pages of Marguerite Duras’scelebrated work of autofiction, The Lover, Duras looks back to her crossing…