Four Novels by Marguerite Duras

This book contains four novellas by Duras. The first one "The Square" was way too chatty for me and that made it hard to follow. A man chats with a woman who thinks that marriage will magically solve everything wrong with her life. The second story "Moderatro Cantabile" is about a boy playing piano lessons and his mother and him hear a murder going on outside. The third story "10:30 on a Summer Night" concerns a woman helping a criminal. The fourth "The Afternoon of Mr. Andesmas" is about a man building onto a house for his daughter and the relationships between the four characters of the story: the contractor, his wife, the man, and his daughter. These stories were ok but they don't match Duras' work on The Lover or the screenplay she did with Hiroshima, Mon Amour. If you just come in with average expectations then you will be satisfied.