Marguerite as She Was

On June 3 1991 Marguerite Duras gave me her last published work The North China Lover autographed for the first time She wrote For my friend Dominique Auvray in memory of a wonder of wonders a still recent past when we worked together in the cinema This is a portrait of her as she was cheerful and serious authentic and provocative considerate and categorical but first and foremost young and free