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Marguerite Duras: Paradoxically, the freedom...

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Paradoxically, the freedom of Paris is associated with a persistent belief that nothing ever changes. Paris, they say, is the city that changes least. After an absence of twenty or thirty years, one still recognizes it.

Source: Tourists in Paris, in France-Observateur (Paris), 1957; repr. in Outside: Selected Writings, 1984.
-- Marguerite Duras, (Apr 4 1914-1996), French novelist, playwright; She is internationally known for her screenplays of Hiroshima mon amour, 1959 and India Song, 1975 and her novel novel L'Amant, 1984.


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