Marguerite Duras's Lover and Kathy Acker's Blood and Gore in High School are both transgressive novels and postmodernist fiction. Both novels tell the story of a young girl experimenting with her sexuality at a young age. In The Lover the narrator is in love with a man who gives her money. Blood and Guts in High School is a fictional novel about the main character's love for his father and other men. The goal of this essay is to explore the desires that drive young women's sexual behavior that Duras and Acker express through their narrators. Craving can be defined as a strong feeling of wanting to have something or wanting something to happen. A wish can be expressed as a wish, it can be desired or something you feel. Sexual desire is a motivational state and interest in sexual objects or activities. This includes the desire, need, or urge to seek sexual objects to engage in sexual activity. Sexual desire has been referred to by many different names such as sexual drive, motivation, interest, or lust. Sexual desire may be the most common sexual event in the lives of men and women. It is triggered by external and internal signals. Fantasies are also part of sexual behavior, this includes what one might consider attractive. In Duras's The Lover his narrator is young but has an intense sexual desire. The main character also has a strong sense of self-confidence and self-awareness at the beginning. It's surprising for such a young girl, but from what we learn she's much more curious than the average 15-year-old. She wants to be with an older man even if it's against what her family and others believe. Duras shows how women are portrayed as sexual objects or symbols at the center of the card and are very transgressive. In Duras's The Lover we see the narrator's desires drive her to have an affair with a man who pays her. In Acker's Blood and Guts in High School, Janey's desires cause her to fall in love with multiple men and subject herself to loneliness. Acker and Duras explore this through jouissance and plagiarism. Works Cited “Join Academia.edu and share your research with the world.” The postcolonial in The Lover: hybridity and the exchange of power through sexuality. Np, nd Web. 02 April 2014. Muth, Kathy. "Good after the end." MUSE project. Np, nd Web. April 16, 2014 "Stolen Letters: The Scarlet Letter in Kathy Acker's Blood." Criticism 35.3 (1994): 173. ProQuest. Network. April 16, 2014Ruddy, Karen. “The Ambivalence of Colonial Desire in Marguerite Duras’s “The Lover”” JSTOR. Palgrave Macmillan Journals, nd Web. 02 April. 2014.