Negative Positive
Title: Memories of Decay
Review: A fine work of prose-Duras constructs an impressionistic work about a French girl growing up too fast in Vietnam. Broken and destitute, the narrator grows to fall in love with a Chinese man, as her mother is forced to incessantly handle the problems of her older brother. Duras moves seamlessly moves from first to third person in the web of her prose. This is a book devoted to the act of memory and the emergence of sexuality-it is both autobiographical and yet distant-and it casts a luminous, though faint glow.
Is the review positive or negative? 