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Duras, Marguerite was born on April 4, 1914 in Giadinh, Indochina. Daughter of Henri and Marie (Legrand) Donnadieu.
( In this classic novel by the best-selling author of The...)
In this classic novel by the best-selling 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 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.
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(« Qu''est-ce que ça veut dire, moderato cantabile ?- Je n...)
« Qu''est-ce que ça veut dire, moderato cantabile ?- Je ne sais pas. »Une leçon de piano, un enfant obstiné, une mère aimante, pas de plus simple expression de la vie tranquille d''une ville de province. Mais un cri soudain vient déchirer la trame, révélant sous la retenue de ce récit d''apparence classique une tension qui va croissant dans le silence jusqu''au paroxysme final.« Quand même, dit Anne Desbarèdes, tu pourrais t''en souvenir une fois pour toutes. Moderato, ça veut dire modéré, et cantabile, ça veut dire chantant, c''est facile. »Paru en 1958, ce roman de Marguerite Duras a été traduit dans le monde entier.
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La dernière guerre, Marguerite Duras l'a vécue tout à la fois comme femme dont le mari avait été déporté, comme résistante, mais aussi, comme écrivain. Lucide, étonnée, désespérée parfois, elle a, pendant ces années, tenu un journal, écrit des textes que lui inspirait tout ce qu'elle voyait, ce qu'elle vivait, les gens qu'elle rencontrait ou affrontait. Ce sont ces récits et des extraits de son journal, que Marguerite Duras a réunis sous le titre La Douleur.
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An international best-seller with more than one million copies in print and a winner of Frances 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 Durass childhood, this is the haunting tale of a tumultuous affair between an adolescent French girl and her Chinese lover. In spare yet luminous prose, Duras evokes life on the margins of Saigon in the waning days of Frances colonial empire, and its representation in the passionate relationship between two unforgettable outcasts. Long unavailable in hardcover, this edition of The Lover includes a new introduction by Maxine Hong Kingston that looks back at Duras's world from an intriguing new perspectivethat of a visitor to Vietnam today. (With an introduction by Maxine Hong Kingston; translated from the French by Barbara Bray.)
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Jacket description/back: One of the most influential works in the history of cinema, Alain Renais's Hiroshima Mon Amour gathered international acclaim upon its release in 1959 and was awarded the International Critics' Prize at the Cannes Film festival and the New York Film Critics' Award. Ostensibly the story of a love affair between a Japanese architect and a French actress visiting Japan to make a film on peace, Hiroshima Mon Amour is a stunning exploration of the influence of war on both Japanese and French culture and the conflict between love and humanity.
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( Writing, one of Marguerite Durass last works, is a med...)
Writing, one of Marguerite Durass last works, is a meditation on the process of writing and on her need for solitude in order to do it. In the five short pieces collected in this volume, she explores experiences that had an emotional impact on her and that inspired her to write. These vary from the death of a pilot in World War II, to the death of a fly, to an art exhibition. Two of the pieces were made into documentary films, and one was originally a short film. Both autobiographical and fictional, like much of her work, Writing displays Durass unique worldview and sensitive insight in her simple and poetic prose.
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( In this volume of four short novels, Duras demonstrates...)
In this volume of four short novels, Duras demonstrates her remarkable ability to create an emotional intensity and unity by focusing on the intimate details of the relationships among only a few cental characters: from the park bench couple in "The Square" (1955) to the double love triangle in "10:30 on a Summer Night" (1960), each novel probes the depths and complexities of human emotion, of love and of despair. Exceptional for their range in mood and situation, these four novels are unparalleled exhibitions of a poetic beauty that is uniquely Duras.
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Duras, Marguerite was born on April 4, 1914 in Giadinh, Indochina. Daughter of Henri and Marie (Legrand) Donnadieu.
Educated, Saigon and Paris.
Writer since 1943.; writer and director les Eaux et les Forets 1978, Aurelia Steiner (film) 1979, l"Homme assis dans le couloir (film) 1980, Savannah Bay, Louisiana maladice de la mort 1983, L’amant (prix Goneourt, prix Ritz Paris Hemingway 1986) 1984, Les Enfants 1984, Louisiana Douleur (autobiog. stories) 1986, Les yeux bleus cheveux noirs, Louisiana pute de la cote normande 1986, Emily L. 1989, la Pluie d’ete 1990. Vera Baxter (play) 1989.
( In this volume of four short novels, Duras demonstrates...)
( Jacket description/back: One of the most influential wo...)
(An international best-seller with more than one million c...)
(La dernière guerre, Marguerite Duras l'a vécue tout à la ...)
( Writing, one of Marguerite Durass last works, is a med...)
( In this classic novel by the best-selling author of The...)
(« Qu''est-ce que ça veut dire, moderato cantabile ?- Je n...)
(Original French language edition of "L'amant.")
Daughter of Henri and Marie (Legrand) Donnadieu. M. Robert Antelme, 1939 (divorced 1946).