The Malady of Death (1986) (edit title/settings)

Shelfari approved its own request to combine 2 books, including The Malady of Death, Tuesday, February 5, 2013.

Shelfari submitted a request to combine 2 books, including The Malady of Death, Tuesday, February 5, 2013.

Shelfari submitted a request to combine 2 books, including The Malady of Death, Monday, December 17, 2012.

Shelfari approved its own request to combine 2 books, including The Malady of Death, Monday, December 17, 2012.

Eliza approved Shelfari’s request to combine 2 books, including The Malady of Death, Saturday, July 30, 2011.

Shelfari submitted a request to combine 2 books, including The Malady of Death, Friday, May 6, 2011.

Shelfari edited the subjects of The Malady of Death Tuesday, March 2, 2010.

• Added the subject: Subjects > Literature and Fiction > Authors, A-Z > ( D ) > Duras, Marguerite
• Added the subject: Subjects > Literature and Fiction > Literary
• Added the subject: Subjects > Literature and Fiction > Contemporary
• Added the subject: Subjects > Romance

Shelfari edited the first edition of The Malady of Death Friday, February 5, 2010.

• changed the language: English
• changed the publisher: Grove Press
• changed the country: USA
• changed the publication date: 1986
• changed the ISBN: 0394538668
• changed the page count: 60

Shelfari edited the classification of The Malady of Death Monday, January 18, 2010.

• changed the Dewey Classification: 843.912

Shelfari edited the description of The Malady of Death Friday, July 31, 2009.

• A 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 . . .This 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." "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; "Deceptively simple and Racinian in its purity, condensed to the essential." - Translation Review.