{"product_id":"the-malady-of-death-english-and-french-edition","title":"The Malady of Death","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA man hires a woman to spend several weeks with him by the sea. The woman is no one in particular, a \"she,\" a warm, moist body with a beating heart-the enigma of Other. Skilled in the mechanics of sex, he desires through her to penetrate a different mystery: he wants to learn love. It isn't a matter of will, she tells him. Still, he wants to learn to try... \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis beautifully wrought erotic novel is an extended haiku on the meaning of love, \"perhaps a sudden lapse in the logic of the universe,\" and of its absence, \"the malady of death.\" \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"The whole tragedy of the inability to love is in this work, thanks to Duras' unparalleled art of reinventing the most familiar words, of weighing their meaning.\" - Le Monde; \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"Deceptively simple and Racinian in its purity, condensed to the essential.\" - Translation Review.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Marguerite Duras","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43650548859049,"sku":"0394538668","price":12.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0424\/9518\/0962\/files\/download_1_17390088-be89-4048-ba34-74f454a26d07.jpg?v=1708056774","url":"https:\/\/roseyravelstonbooks.com.au\/products\/the-malady-of-death-english-and-french-edition","provider":"RoseyRavelston Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}