MD - Marguerite Duras är en presentation av den politiska Duras i två volymer; en text- och en fotobok. Här beskrivs den franska författarens politiska liv och engagemang, från barndomen i det koloniserade Indokina, motståndsrörelsen i Paris under andra världskriget och hennes engagemang i o[...]
A young woman growing up in Indochina experiences the humiliations and the passions of her poverty-ridden world and, like her friends, grows impatient for the experiences of adulthood while still caught up in her childhood[...]
When "Marguerite Duras" was published in France in 1998, it reached the top of the bestseller lists immediately, and Duras, who had led an unapologetically controversial life, was propelled once again into the headlines. The author of "The Lover," "Hiroshima Mon Amour," and "The War: A Memoir," Dura[...]
This volume documents the critical response to Duras' life and work. Beginning with a short biography which discusses some of the major events and themes in her career, it goes on to recount her life in capsule form, and present annotated entries for works by and about Duras.[...]
An international best-seller with more than one million copies in print and a winner of France's Prix Goncourt, The Lover has been acclaimed by critics all over the world since its first publication in 1984.
Set in the prewar Indochina of Marguerite Duras's childhood, this is the haunting[...]
Lol Stein's comfortable married life is disrupted when she returns to her hometown and recalls how she was abandoned by a former fiance[...]
The first book in English to deal exclusively with Duras' cinema, including such films as India Song, Le Camion, and Nathalie Granger. Provides a lucid and stimulating introduction to her films, which is accessible to a wide readerhip, both specialist and non-specialist. Locates the films in their a[...]
A man hires an unnamed woman to stay with him for several weeks in the hope that he will, for the first time in his life, be able to experience love with a woman[...]
This study examines the complexity of mourning in the works of two of the most widely read, yet rarely compared, contemporary authors in France, Albert Camus, born and raised in Algeria, and Marguerite Duras, originally from the former French Indochina. The book studies the figurative and thematic r[...]
"Duras manages to combine the seemingly irreconcilable perspectives of confession and objectivity, of lyrical poetry and nouveau roman. The sentences lodge themselves slowly in the reader's mind until they detonate with all the force of fused feeling and thought--the force of a metaphysical contempl[...]
"Moderato Cantabile" is a carefully woven tapestry of emotion that begins with a jealous lover murdering the woman he loves. Fascinated by the crime, Anne returns several times to the bistro where it took place, drinking through the afternoon with the worker who patiently answers her eager questions[...]