This she soon abandoned to concentrate on political science, then law. She also reported being beaten by both her mother during this period.Īt 17, Duras went to France, her parents' native country, where she began studying for a degree in mathematics. An affair between the teenaged Duras and Huynh Thuy Le, the son of a rich Sa Dec merchant, was to be treated several times (described in quite contrasting ways) in her subsequent memoirs and fiction. The difficult life that the family experienced during this period was highly influential on Duras's later work. The family lived in relative poverty after her mother made a bad investment in an isolated property and area of rice farmland in Cambodia. After his death, her mother remained in Indochina with her three children. Duras was born Marguerite Donnadieu on Apin Gia-Dinh (a former name for Saigon), Cochinchina, French Indochina (now Vietnam) she was the only child of two teachers who responded to a campaign by the French government encouraging French people to settle in the colony.ĭuras's father fell ill soon after their arrival and returned to France, where he died.
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