![]() ![]() This fifteen-year-old French girl is abused by her "beggar"-family and she mostly lives in her imaginary world. This intensifies the meaning of the forbidden relationship that she had in the past when she was just a fifteen-year-old girl attending a boarding school. In the very beginning of the book she says: "Very early in my life it was much too late" (Duras 4). It is a life-story of a woman, a story that has always lived in her heart, the story of her life, which she could not change for better. ![]() "The Lover" is one of the exceptions from the general regularity. This is just the way things usually are and ordinary nothing should change it. Can this description be considered a perfect and exact description of a love relationship?Īt least it is the most dominant trend, which is very likely to be observed anywhere. They write letters and poems to each other looking forward the next time they are going to see each other. He adores his beloved one and "she" is fragile and feminine. What is a "standard lover" like? "He" is an embodiment of strength and courageousness to do anything in the name of his love. ![]() At the same time it is also a story of opposing social abutments and failure to fight them. It is a love story without any real continuation but with millions of them in the head of each of the lovers. It is the story that questions love standards. "The Lover" is the novel that can be considered a rebellion against the world of stereotyped relationships and ordinary understanding of love. ![]()
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