Intoxication of life and love
Banthun Ratmanee described the experience translating Marguerite Duras’ 1982 novella La Maladie De La Mort (The Malady Of Death) as intoxicating. The plot itself is fairly straightforward. In fact Banthun, who is a French literature lecturer at Thammasat University’s Faculty of Liberal Arts, said it can be summed up in one sentence: “It’s a story about a man who hires a woman to stay with…