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Marguerite Duras
Brilliant, prizewinning biography of one of 20th century France's most influential and complex cultural figures, author of the bestselling The Lover
The Crimes of Marguerite Duras
This book studies Marguerite Duras's use of mass media and criminal faits divers as critical components of her literary project.
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Marguerite Duras
Marguerite Duras is France's best-known and most controversial contemporary woman writer. Duras' influence extends from her early novels of the 1950's to her radically innovative experimental autobiographical text of the 1980's The Lover Leslie Hill's book throws new light on Duras' relationship to feminism, psychoanalysis, sexuality, literature, film, politics, and the media. Feted by Kristeva, and Laca who claimed her as almost his other self, Duras is revealed to be a profoundly transgressive thinker and artist. It will be a must for all concerned with contemporary writing, writing by women, recent European cinema, film and literature.
Marguerite Duras (1914-1996)--Pseudonym of Marguerite Donnadieu
As part of Pegasos, Kuunsankosken Kaupunginkirjasto of Finland presents a biographical sketch of the French writer novelist and playwright Marguerite Donnadieu (1914-1996), who used the pseudonym Marguerite Duras. Some of Donnadieu's works include "The Sailor from Gibraltar" (1952), "Little Horses of Tarquinia" (1953), "Ten-Thirty on a Summer Night" (1960), and "Destroy, She Said" (1969). A selected bibliography of Donnadieu's works is offered.
Destroy, She Said
In this classic novel by the bestselling author of The Lover, erotic intrigue masks a chillingly deceptive form of madness. Elisabeth Alione is convalescing in a hotel in rural France when she meets two men and another woman. The sophisticated dalliance among the four serves to obscure an underlying violence, which, when the curtain of civilization is drawn aside, reveals in her fellow guests a very contemporary, perhaps even new, form of insanity. Like many of Marguerite Duras’s novels, Destroy, She Said owes much to cinema, displaying a skillful interplay of dialogue and description. There are recurring moods and motifs from the Duras repertoire: eroticism, lassitude, stifled desire, a beautiful woman, a mysterious forest, a desolate provincial hotel. Included in this volume is an in-depth interview with Duras by Jacques Rivette and Jean Narboni.
The Easy Life
For the first time in English, literary icon Marguerite Duras's foundational masterpiece about a young woman's existential breakdown in the deceptively peaceful French countryside. The Easy Life is the story of Francine Veyrenattes, a twenty-five-year-old woman who already feels like life is passing her by. After witnessing a series of tragedies on her family farm, she alternates between intense grief and staggering boredom as she discovers a curious detachment in herself, an inability to navigate the world as others do. Hoping to be cleansed of whatever ails her, she travels to the coast to visit the sea. But there she finds herself unraveling, uncertain of what is inside her. Lying in the sun with her toes in the sand by day while psychologically dissolving in her hotel room by night, she soon reaches the peak of her inner crisis and must grapple with whether and how she can take hold of her own existence. An extraordinary examination of a young woman's estrangement from the world that only Marguerite Duras could have written, The Easy Life is a work of unsettling beauty and insight, and a bold, spellbinding journey into the depths of the human heart.
Wartime Writings
Published for the first time in English, these World War II-era notebooks offer insights into one of the 20th century's most renowned literary figures. Here are the first drafts of her most famous works, the true stories behind "The Lover, The War," and several other classics.
