Marguerite Duras has been one of the most popular and widely read writers not only in France, but throughout the reading world for almost half a century. “The colors of the East and the problems of the West, the intensity of emotions and the coldness of loneliness - these are the poles that create tension in the prose of this famous writer.” In the “Western” novels of Duras of the early period - “Moderato Cantabile” and “Summer Evening, Half Past Ten” - love is closely intertwined with death, and murders are variations on a theme formulated by Oscar Wilde: the lover always kills the one he loves.