Marguerite Donadieu was born in 1914 in the city of Gia Dinh in Cross Timbers Chinatown (now southern Vietnam). Her father was a math teacher and her mother was a teacher at a local people's elementary school. She had two brothers.Her father died in 1921.
In 1924 she was living in Phnom Penh, Vinh Long, and Sak Lek. Her mother bought a piece of land in Poreno (Cambodia) that could not be cultivated.
In 1939 she married Robert Ontelm.
1940-1942 She collaborated with Philippe Roque on Galileo Press, The French Empire. Working at the Book Club, The Tanarans was rejected by Galileo Press. Her first child died young. Her youngest brother dies during the war against Japan in China. Becomes acquainted with Dionis Mascolo.
In 1943 she publishes The Shameless Man under the pseudonym Marguerite Duras. Participates in the activities of the Resistance Movement led by Mour?o (i.e. Fran?ois Mitterrand).
In 1944 R. Antelme was arrested and banished to Buchenwald and then to Dachau (see Misery). She joins the French ****production party, becomes secretary of the party branch in the rue Visconti, sets up a tracing office and publishes the newspaper Le Libertaire, which carries material on the situation of prisoners of war and deportees. Publishes La vie en calme.
R. Antelme returned in 1945. Together with R. Antelm she founded the Universal Press. 1946 she spent the summer in Italy. Divorces R. Antelme.
1947 Her son Jean Mascolo is born.
1950 She publishes The Dike Against the Pacific. Expelled from the French ****production party.
Separated from D. Mascolo in 1957. published The Sound of the Piano in 1958. From 1955 she opposed the continuation of the Algerian war and later the de Gaulle regime. She wrote for various weekly magazines and journals.
Wrote the screenplay for Hiroshima Mon Amour for Alain René in 1959.
Elected jury member for the Medici Prize in 1960, but resigned a few years later." If a negative jury exists, I'm on it."
In 1961 she wrote "The Long Goodbye" for a Henry Korpi film, a screenplay that was the result of a collaboration with Gérard Jarreau, winner of the 1963 Medici Prize for Literature.
In 1968 she took part in those events of the May Storm. A political essay on the birth of the Action Committee of Students and Writers, which was discredited by the committee and dissolved shortly thereafter, can be read in Green Eyes.
In 1975, "Song of India" won the French Association of Art Film Cinemas and Experimental Cinemas Award during the Cannes Film Festival.
In 1976, "All Day Among the Trees" won the Jean Cocteau Prize.
Rehabilitation for drug addiction at the American Hospital in Naj in 1982. 1984 Goncourt Prize for The Lover.
Published in 1985: "The Agony", an article published on July 17 in Libération, in which Marguerite Duras's position on the "Wehrmann case" aroused the hostility of a certain number of readers and the polemics of several feminists.
In 1986 The Lover won the Ritz-Paris-Hemingway Prize as "the best novel published in English that year".
1988-1989 Severe coma. Hospitalized. 1990 R. Anthem died. 1991 North China Lover published.
Death of Marguerite Duras, 1996.
Synopsis:
"I am old. One day, in the hall of a public **** place, a man came up to me, he took the initiative to introduce himself, and he said to me, I know you, I will always remember you. At that time, you were young, and everyone said you were beautiful, and now, I have come specifically to tell you that for me, I think you are even more beautiful than you were when you were young, when you were a young woman, and I love your present battered looks more than I did when you were young."
This is a passage written by French author Marguerite Duras in her novel The Lover. It was a shocking story of love between a 13-year-old French girl and a thirty-something Chinese man in Vietnam. Marguerite Duras won the 1984 Prix Goncourt for her novel L'Amant (The Lover). The year before that, it sold 4.2 million copies and was turned into 42 languages. Starring movie star Tony Leung Ka-fai, "The Lover" has even taken the breath away from countless fans.
One day, 54 years after leaving her Chinese lover, who had died 12 years earlier. Her fear of writing about him vanishes. Words spring to life, and she must write fast so that she can write before it disappears and the words come to her on their own. "The Lover is a savage book that brings forth all that it meets, bursting forth without distinction, almost without choice." Wang Daoqian's translation reads with richness, and the story of "The Lover" reappears before your eyes.
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Marguerite Duras (1914-1996) was France's most famous contemporary female novelist, playwright and film artist. She was born on April 4, 1914 in Gia Dinh, Vietnam, to parents who were both elementary school teachers. Duras began her literary career with the novel The Brazen Ones (1943), and her works are not only rich in content and diverse in genre, but also particularly genre-oriented, with a novel and unique style. Her early novel The Pacific Embankment (1950) fully reflects the poverty of her childhood, and many other works are also based on the social reality of Indochina. Sailor in the Strait of Gibraltar (1952) and others are full of camera-like images and colloquial dialogues, and therefore, most of them have been adapted into films; later novels, such as The Pony of Tarquinia (1953), The Sound of the Harp (1958), and The Ecstasy of Lore V. Stein (1964), are good at breaking the traditional mode of narration and blending fiction with reality, and thus she was once regarded as a member of the New School of Fiction. was once regarded as a writer of the New Novel school. In fact, her novels are only similar to the New Novel in terms of approach, emphasizing the poetic and musical nature of the genre, but they are quite different in terms of conception, and in depicting the antagonism between the rich and the poor and the desires of human beings in her works, she is exposing the social reality in a unique way. Duras was equally accomplished in theater and film, publishing three collections of plays in 1965, 1968, and 1984, and winning the Grand Prix de la Drama of the Académie fran?aise in 1983. As a member of the "Left Bank School", an important French film school, she not only wrote such outstanding screenplays as Hiroshima Love (1960) and The Long Goodbye (1961), but also acted as a director herself from 1965 onwards, and from the creation of the excellent film Song of India (1974), one or two films came out every year, and many of them won international awards. More than sixty of Duras's works have always had a wide readership and audience, most notably Duras's novel The Lover (1984), published when he was seventy years old. This very popular and exotic work, in which she recalls with astonishing candor her first love with a Chinese lover in Indochina at the age of sixteen, won that year's Prix Goncourt, and has been translated into more than 40 different languages, with more than 2.5 million copies sold to date, making her the most prestigious French-language author in the world today.
March 3, 1996, Sunday. The beloved contemporary French author Marguerite Duras completed her 81-year journey. The last work she wrote during her lifetime has a prophetic title - "This Is All There Is".
1943: The Brazen One (novel)
1944: A Quiet Life (novel)
1950: The Pacific Causeway (novel)
1952: Sailors in the Strait of Gibraltar (novel)
1953: The Pony of Tarquinia (novel)
1954: Days and Nights in the Woods (novel) with: Anaconda, Mrs. Dodan, The Site (novel)
1955: The Square (novel)
1958: The Singing Middle Board (novel, Chinese translation titled The Sound of the Piano)
1959: The Dry Bridge at Seine-et-Oise (play)
1960: Ten and a Half Summer Nights (novel) Love in Hiroshima (screenplay)
1961: The Long Farewell (screenplay, with Chandra Yarrow)
1962: The Afternoon of Mr. Ondesma (novel)
1964: The Ecstasy of Lorre Va Stein (novel)
1965: The Drama, Episode I: "The River and the Forest," "The Square," and "The Musical Comedy"; "The Vice-Consul" (novel)
1966: "The Music" (screenplay)
1967: "The English Lover" (novel)
1958: "The English Lover" (screenplay)
Drama, Episode II: "Suzanne André," "Days and Nights in the Woods", 'Yes, Maybe So', 'The Saga Language', 'A Man Came to See Me'.
1969: She Speaks of Destruction (novel) She Speaks of Destruction (movie)
1970: Abaan, Sabana, David (novel)
1971: Love (novel) Yellow, Sun (movie)
1972: Natalie Granger (movie)
1973. Song of India (screenplay) The Woman of the Ganges (movie) Nathalie Granger with: The Woman of the Ganges (screenplay)
1974: The Woman Who Talks (conversation with Zavier Gauthier)
1975: Song of India (movie)
1976: Bakstel, Vera Bakstel ( movie) Her Name in Venice When She Was in Deserted Calcutta (movie)
1976: Days and Nights in the Woods (movie)
1977: The Truck (movie) The Truck, with: Conversations with Michel Porte (screenplay)
Locations in the Pens of Marguerite Doula (with Michel Porte (written as a conversation) Eden of the Movies (screenplay)
1978: The Night Boat (film)
1979: The Night Boat, with: City of Caesars, The Reverse Hands, Aurelia Styne (screenplay)
City of Caesars (film)
The Reverse Hands (film)
The Aurelia Styne, Aurelia Melbourne Says (film)
"Aurelia Styne, Aurelia And Wonkwe Says" (film)
1980: "Vera Baxter or the Atlantic Riviera" (novel) "The Man Who Sits on the Porch" (novel) "The Summer of '80" (essay) "Green Eyes" (screenplay)
1981: "Agata" (novel) "Agata and the Endless Reading" (film) "The Outside World" (essay) "The Young Girl and the Boy" (audiotape, adapted by Jan André from "Summer of '80" and read by Marguerite Durra) "The Atlantic Man" (film)
1982: "Dialogues in Rome" (film)
1982: "The Atlantic Man (novel) Savannah Bay (play) The Disease of Death (novel)
1984: Drama III: The Jungle Trap, The Papers of Asbeth, The Dance of Death; The Lover (novel)
1985: The Agony (novel) The Musical Sequel (play) Chekhov's Gulls (essays) The Children (film. with Jean Mascolo and Jean-Marc Tirina)
1986: Blue Eyes, Black Hair (novel) Prostitutes of the Normandy Sea (novel)
1987: Emilie L. (novel)
1987: Material Life (essay)
1990: Summer Rain (novel)
1992: "Lover from Northern China" (novel) "Lover from Northern China" (movie script)
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Marguerite Duras (Marguerite Duras, transliterated as Marguerite Dura in Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau, April 4, 1914 - March 3, 1996) was a French writer.
Marguerite Donadieu was born in 1914 in Jiading, Indochina. Her father was a math teacher and her mother was a teacher at an elementary school for local people. She had two older brothers. Her childhood and adolescence in Indochina became a source of inspiration for her work, and in 1943 she changed her surname to Duras, the name of a small river in her father's hometown.
Duras studied mathematics, law and political science at university. After graduating, she worked as a secretary in the French government's colonial ministry from 1935 to 1941, then joined the Resistance and the ****production party; she was expelled from the ****production party in 1955.
Her claim to fame is the autobiographical novel The Dike Against the Pacific (1950). In her later works she usually depicted characters trying to escape their isolation. While her early works were more classical in form, her later works revolutionized fiction writing by breaking with traditional narrative and giving new meaning to psychoanalysis, and are often considered representative of the New School of Fiction, which was rejected by the author herself.In 1984 she was awarded the Prix Goncourt for her Lover.
Duras's literary work includes more than 40 novels and 10 screenplays, which have been adapted into movies on several occasions, such as Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959) and The Lover (1992). She also made several films herself, including "Song of India" and "The Children".
Duras's life is a novel, and it is this novel that she keeps working on. This story is filled with heat, storms, alcohol and irritability, dialog and disembodied words, lightning-fast love and more. Duras is hard to describe; gentle or irascible? Genius or narcissist? (See Raul Adelaide's biography of Duras, Marguerite Duras.) First of all, we should believe her when she writes: "I am the writer. Everything else can be forgotten." In her work, she recounts the need, the difficulty and the horror of "saying".
In order to live in the world, we must forget the troubles that haunt us. But writing both conceals and exposes. So Duras tries, repeats, searches for the right words, "tries" to write, just as he "tries" to love, knowing in his heart that he can never achieve it. The impossibility of love and the pursuit of love is a very important theme in Duras' work.
Her novels are often centered around an explosion, usually caused by a momentary scene of violence. Hiroshima is symbolically blended with love, death and carnal desire. "Destruction, she said". This language, in turn, is combined with music - an oceanic music, endlessly mutating around a single theme, confiding and celebrating, controlling and out of control ......
Marguerite Duras died on March 3, 1996, and is buried at the Montparnasse Cemetery.
Works by Duras
The Brazen One 1943/novel Bloom Press, reprinted 1992 by Gallimard
A Quiet Life 1944/novel Gallimard
The Levee Against the Pacific 1950/novel Gallimard
The Sailor of Gibraltar 1952/novel Galima
The Ponies of Tarquinia 1953/novel Galima
The Years in the Trees 1954/collection of short stories Galima, with Python, Mrs. Doddan, and The Construction Sites
The Garden of the Streets 1955/novel Galima
The Slow Plate as a Song 1958/novel Sonic Night Press
The Viaduct at Seine-et-Oise 1959/Theater Gálima
Ten and a Half Summer Nights 1960/Novel Gálima
Love in Hiroshima 1960/Film Script Gálima
Such a Long Absence 1961/Film Script In collaboration with Gérard Yarrow, Galima
An Afternoon with Mr. Andras 1962/Short Story Galima
The Ecstasy of Raoul V. Stein 1964/Novel Galima
The Drama - Volume I 1965/Theatre Galima
Vice Consul 1965/novel Galima
Music 1966/film co-directed with Paul Thébbon
The English Lover 1967/novel Galima
The English Lover 1968/drama Galima
Drama - Volume 2 1968, Galima
Destruction, She Said 1969 Midnight
Destruction, She Said Film Benoit Jago
Abang. Sabana and David 1970 Galima
Love 1971/novel Galima
The Yellow Sun 1971/film Galima
Natalie Grange 1972/film Galima
Songs of India 1973/drama, film Galima
Woman of the Ganges 1973/Film Beno?t Jagot release
Natalie Granger 1973 Galima
The Talker 1974/Conversation with Quetzavier Gautier Midnight
Baxter, Sheltered by Baxter 1976/Film Galima
In the Deserts of Calcutta Her Name Is Venice 1976/film Distributed by Beno?t Jago
The Years in the Trees film Distributed by Beno?t Jago
The Trucks 1977/film
The Trucks 1977/screenplay Midnight Received with a conversation with Michel Polt
The Territory of Marguerite Duras 1977 Midnight With Michel Polt Polt collaboration
"Eden Cinema" 1977/drama Merchant God Publishing
"The Ship of the Night" 1978/film
"Cezaré" 1979/film
"Aurelia Steiner, Melbourne" 1979/film
"Aurelia Steiner, Vancouver" 1979/film < /p>
"Vera Baxter or Atlantic Beach" 1980 Albatros Press
"The Man Sitting on the Porch" 1980/Short Story Midnight
"Summer of '80" 1980 Midnight
"Green Eyes, Black Hair" 1980 Movie Journal
"Agada" 1981 Midnight
Agada or Infinite Readings 1981/film
The World Outside - Volume 1 1981 Alban Mitchell Publishing
Young Girls and Children 1981/audiocassette Jan Andrea based on The Summer of '80, with Marguerite Duras reading
The Roman Dialogues 1982/film
The Atlantic Man 1981/film
The Atlantic Man 1982/short story Midnight
The Gulf of Savannah First edition 1982, supplement 1983 Midnight
The Disease of Death 1982/short story Galima
The Plays - Volume III 1984/The Plays Galima
The Lover 1984/novel Vigil
The Agony 1985 P.O.L. Press
Music No. 2 1985 Galima
Chekhov's The Seagull 1985 Galima
The Children 1985/film Produced with Jean Mascolo and Jean-Marc Turenne
Blue Eyes, Black Hair 1986/novel Vigil
Whores of the Normandy Coast 1986 Vigil
Material Life 1987 P.O.L. Press
Emilie L. 1987/novel Vigil
Summer Rain 1990/novel P.O.L. Press
The Lover from Northern China 1991/novel Vigil
Jan Andrea Steiner 1992 P.O.L. Press
The Write-ups 1993 Galima
The End of Everything 1995 P.O.L. Press
Novels, Films, Plays, 1943-1993 in Retrospect 1997 Gálíma
Bibliography
Laure Adler. Marguerite Duras. Gallimard.1998.
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< p>Marguerite Duras was a writer and a loverMarguerite Duras
Marguerite Duras (1014-1996) was France's best-known contemporary female novelist, playwright and film artist. She was born on April 4, 1914 in Gia Dinh, Vietnam, to parents who were both elementary school teachers. She lost her father at the age of four, and the hardships of her childhood and the tragic fate of her mother influenced her life. Duras came to Paris at the age of eighteen to study, earning a Bachelor of Laws and a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from the University of Paris, and worked as a secretary in the French Ministry of Immigration from 1935 to 1941, where she married Robert Anthelme. During World War II, Antelme was imprisoned in a concentration camp, and he later married Monique, whom he remained married to until his death in 1990.
Duras began her literary career with the novel The Brazen Ones (1943). Her works are not only rich in content and diverse in genre, but also particularly genre-oriented, with a novel and unique style. Her early novel The Pacific Embankment (1950) fully reflects the poverty of her childhood, and many other works are also based on the social reality of Indochina. Sailor in the Straits of Gibraltar (1952) and others are full of camera-like images and colloquial dialogues, and therefore, most of them have been adapted into films; later novels, such as The Pony of Tarquinia (1953), The Sound of the Harp (1958), and The Ecstasy of Lore V. Stein (1964), are good at breaking the traditional mode of narration and blending fiction with reality, and thus she was once regarded as a member of the New School of Fiction. was once regarded as a writer of the New Novel school. In fact, her novels are only similar to the New Novel in terms of approach, emphasizing the poetic and musical nature of the genre, but they are quite different in terms of conception. By depicting the antagonism between the rich and the poor and the desires of human beings in her works, she is exposing the social reality in a unique way. Duras was equally accomplished in theater and film, publishing three collections of plays in 1965, 1968, and 1984, and winning the Grand Prix de la Drama of the Académie fran?aise in 1983. As a member of the "Left Bank School", an important French film school, she not only wrote such outstanding screenplays as Hiroshima Love (1960) and The Long Goodbye (1961), but also became a director herself from 1965 onwards, starting with the excellent film Song of India (1974), which was released every year and won a number of awards. films have come out and a number of them have won international awards.
Duras's more than sixty works have always had a wide readership and audience, most notably his novel The Lover (1984), published when he was seventy years old. In this very popular and exotic work, she recalls with astonishing candor her first love with a Chinese lover in Indochina at the age of sixteen, which won the Prix Goncourt that year, and was immediately translated into various languages, and has sold more than two and a half million copies to date, making her the most prestigious French-language author in the world today. She later rewrote The Lover as A Chinese Lover in the North (1991) after learning of the death of her first love. Although all the people in her novel are dead, and her memories are no longer scrupulous, and her writing is much bolder, with far more devoted to the physical aspects of her lover than in Lover, and with incest and homosexuality to the point of nudity, she never reveals the name of her first love, but only uses the word "she" for the young girl, and the word "Chinese" for the young girl. But she never names her first love, using only "she" for the young girl, and "Chinese" for her lover.
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The Lover
The Heist of Lauer
Afternoon of Mr. Ondesma
Ten and a half o'clock on a summer night
Lover
The Square
Writing
Hiroshima Love
Lover - Ebony Eyes
Marguerite Duras' words in front of The Square
Weyergand's cold win of the Goncourt Prize (2005-11-7 )
Duras: The Afternoon of Mr. Ondesmar Afternoon(2005-9-20 )
China-France Publishing and Cultural Exchanges: Starting with Voltaire, Sizzling with Duras(2005-9-2 9 )
2005 BIBF Fourier Publishing Program as a Whole(2005-8-30 )
Marguerite Duras' Words Written in front of The Square(2005-8-30 )
Marguerite Duras: The Goncourt Award(2005-11-7 )
Marguerite Duras A Passage to French Culture(2005-8-23 )Boys Buy Clancy, Girls Buy Duras(2005-8-22 )
Duras: Foggy Fiction Maker - Review of The Heist of Lauer(2005-8-18 )
< p>Accounting for half of the book fair retail analysis of the Century Group's three hot spots(2005-8-11 )Time flows, read Duras(2005-8-10 )
Book fair "labyrinth", do not fear to get lost(2005-8-8 9 )
Thirty of Duras's works will be launched during the Duras' 30 works to be launched during book fair(2005-8-4 9)
Reading makes life more harmonious, Shanghai book market opens this weekend(2005-8-2 1)
Wang Daoqian's version of the classic translation of The Lover to return to the scene in July(2005-8-2 1)
I take the real as a myth - Duras interview(2005-8-2 1)
I take the real as a myth - Duras interview(2005-8-2 1)
The book fair's "maze" is a great way to get lost. -Duras Interview(2005-8-1 1)
Not out of the closed forest - Duras's The Lover(2005-8-1 1)
The strokes of the pen are like a complaint, and the talent transcends time and space. The "complete" Duras series is ready for release(2005-7-22 )
French literary world, popular fiction sings(2005-5-20 )
and Robbe-Grillet under the same sky(2005-3-14 )
< p>Duras's The Lover - Ebony Eyes(2005-2-11 )Literary World Star Marguerite Duras(2004-12-24 )
Distance or Despair(2004-12-24 )
The inimitable Marguerite Duras(2004-12-24 )
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Marguerite Duras (1014-1996) was the French contemporary most famous female novelist, playwright and film artist. She was born on April 4, 1914 in Gia Dinh, Vietnam, to parents who were elementary school teachers. She lost her father at the age of four, and the hardships of her childhood and the tragic fate of her mother influenced her life. Duras came to Paris at the age of eighteen to study, earning a Bachelor of Laws and a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from the University of Paris, and worked as a secretary in the French Ministry of Immigration from 1935 to 1941, where she married Robert Anthelme. During World War II, Antelme was imprisoned in a concentration camp, and he later married Monique, whom he remained married to until his death in 1990.
Duras began her literary career with the novel The Brazen Ones (1943). Her works are not only rich in content and diverse in genre, but also particularly genre-oriented, with a novel and unique style. Her early novel The Pacific Embankment (1950) fully reflects the poverty of her childhood, and many other works are also based on the social reality of Indochina. Sailor in the Strait of Gibraltar (1952) and others are full of camera-like images and colloquial dialogues, and therefore, most of them have been adapted into films; later novels, such as The Pony of Tarquinia (1953), The Sound of the Harp (1958), and The Ecstasy of Lore V. Stein (1964), are good at breaking the traditional mode of narration and blending fiction with reality, and thus she was once regarded as a member of the New School of Fiction. was once regarded as a writer of the New Novel school. In fact, her novels are only similar to the New Novel in terms of approach, emphasizing the poetic and musical nature of the genre, but they are quite different in terms of conception, and in depicting the antagonism between the rich and the poor and the desires of human beings in her works, she is exposing the social reality in a unique way. Duras was equally accomplished in theater and film, publishing three collections of plays in 1965, 1968, and 1984, and winning the Grand Prix de la Drama of the Académie fran?aise in 1983. As a member of the "Left Bank School", an important French film school, she not only wrote such outstanding screenplays as Hiroshima Love (1960) and The Long Goodbye (1961), but also worked as a director herself from 1965 onwards, starting with the excellent Song of India (1974), with one or two films coming out every year, and many of them winning awards. films have come out and a number of them have won international awards.
Duras's more than sixty works have always had a wide readership and audience, most notably his novel The Lover (1984), published when he was seventy years old. In this very popular and exotic work, she recalls with astonishing candor her first love with a Chinese lover in Indochina at the age of sixteen, which won the Prix Goncourt that year, and was immediately translated into various languages, and has sold more than two and a half million copies to date, making her the most prestigious French-language author in the world today. She later rewrote The Lover as A Chinese Lover in the North (1991) after learning of the death of her first love. Although all the people in her novel are dead, and her memories are no longer scrupulous, and her writing is much bolder, with far more devoted to the physical aspects of her lover than in Lover, and with incest and homosexuality to the point of nudity, she never reveals the name of her first love, but only uses the word "she" for the young girl, and the word "Chinese" for the young girl. But she never names her first lover, using "she" to mean a young girl and "Chinese" to refer to her lover.
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Marguerite Duras (玛格丽特-杜拉斯, transliterated as Marguerite Dura in Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau, April 4, 1914 - March 3, 1996) was a French writer.
Marguerite Donadieu was born in 1914 in Jiading, Indochina. Her father was a math teacher and her mother was a teacher at an elementary school for local people. She had two older brothers. Her childhood and adolescence in Indochina became a source of inspiration for her work, and in 1943 she changed her surname to Duras, the name of a small river in her father's hometown.
Duras studied mathematics, law and political science at university. After graduating, she worked as a secretary in the French government's colonial ministry from 1935 to 1941, then joined the Resistance and the ****production party; she was expelled from the ****production party in 1955.
Her claim to fame is the autobiographical novel The Levee Against the Pacific (1950). In her later works she usually depicted characters trying to escape their isolation. While her early works were more classical in form, her later works revolutionized fiction writing by breaking with traditional narrative and giving new meaning to psychoanalysis, and are often considered representative of the New School of Fiction, which was rejected by the author herself.In 1984 she was awarded the Prix Goncourt for her Lover.
Duras's literary work includes more than 40 novels and 10 screenplays, which have been adapted into movies on several occasions, such as Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959) and The Lover (1992). She also made several films herself, including "Song of India" and "The Children".
Duras's life is a novel, and it is this novel that she keeps working on. This story is filled with heat, storms, alcohol and irritability, dialog and disembodied words, lightning-fast love and more. Duras is hard to describe; gentle or irascible? Genius or narcissist? (See Raul Adelaide's biography of Duras, Marguerite Duras.) First of all, we should believe her when she writes: "I am the writer. Everything else can be forgotten." In her work, she recounts the need, the difficulty and the horror of "saying".
In order to live in the world, we must forget the troubles that haunt us. But writing both conceals and exposes. So Duras tries, repeats, searches for the right words, "tries" to write, just as he "tries" to love, knowing in his heart that he can never achieve it. The impossibility of love and the pursuit of love is a very important theme in Duras' work.
Her novels are often centered around an explosion, usually caused by a momentary scene of violence. Hiroshima is symbolically blended with love, death and carnal desire. "Destruction, she said". This language, in turn, is combined with music - an oceanic music, endlessly mutating around a single theme, confiding and celebrating, controlling and out of control ......
Marguerite Duras died on March 3, 1996, and is buried at the Montparnasse Cemetery.
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Works by Duras
The Brazen One 1943/novel Bloom Press, reprinted by Gallimard Press in 1992
The Calm Life