The Crimes of Marguerite Duras

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Author: Anne Brancky

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2020-07-09

Total Pages: 231

ISBN-13: 1108804217

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One of the most celebrated authors of twentieth-century France, Marguerite Duras loved crime. Indeed, criminal faits divers from the newspaper represented a key element in her literary project. Sensational news stories made their way into her novels, plays and screenplays, inspired numerous journalistic pieces and media interventions, and even informed the way that she discussed her life and work in the press. The Crimes of Marguerite Duras offers an innovative framework for analyzing Duras's literary works and journalism as they relate to the mass media and broader cultural debates. Anne Brancky reveals how Duras's predilection for provocatively blurring the line between truth and fiction on various media platforms helped make her a best-selling author and a public intellectual ahead of her time. Exploring the movement between serious literature and public scandal, this readable book affirms literature's abiding role in political debate and the public sphere.

Me & Other Writing

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Author: Marguerite Duras

Publisher: National Geographic Books

Published: 2019-10-01

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 1948980029

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A career-spanning collection of Marguerite Duras’s genre-bending essays that Kirkus calls “a luminous, erudite exploration of the self and art.” In her nonfiction as well as her fiction, Marguerite Duras’s curiosity was endless, her intellect voracious. Within a single essay she might roam from Flaubert to the “scattering of desire” to the Holocaust; within the body of her essays overall, style is always evolving, subject matter shifting, as her mind pushes beyond the obvious toward ever-original ground. Me & Other Writing is a guidebook to the extraordinary breadth of Duras’s nonfiction. From the stunning one-page “Me” to the sprawling 70-page “Summer 80,” there is not a piece in this collection that can be easily categorized. These are essayistic works written for their times but too virtuosic to be relegated to history, works of commentary or recollection or reportage that are also, unmistakably, works of art.

The Crimes of Marguerite Duras

The Crimes of Marguerite Duras PDF

Author: Anne Brancky

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2020-07-09

Total Pages: 231

ISBN-13: 1108490387

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This book studies Marguerite Duras's use of mass media and criminal faits divers as critical components of her literary project.

Moderato Cantabile

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Author: Marguerite Duras

Publisher: Calder Publications Limited

Published: 2017-11-15

Total Pages: 150

ISBN-13: 9780714544557

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A distressed young man murders the woman he loves in a caf�, watched by a large crowd. Fascinated by the crime she has witnessed, Anne Desbaresdes returns several times to the scene, forming a relationship with a man who also saw the murder, and drinking through the afternoon with him as he patiently answers her eager questions. Slowly, they find themselves being taken over by forces which threaten their own stability.Moderato Cantabile is a carefully woven tapestry of emotion, in which the characters' inner lives are reflected by the story's spaces and landscapes.

Writing

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Author: Marguerite Duras

Publisher: U of Minnesota Press

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 114

ISBN-13: 9780816677535

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Celebrated writer Marguerite Duras on the artistic process

The Lover

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Author: Marguerite Duras

Publisher: Pantheon

Published: 2011-07-06

Total Pages: 128

ISBN-13: 0307801209

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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 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 France's 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 perspective--that of a visitor to Vietnam today.

L'amante Anglaise

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Author: Marguerite Duras

Publisher: Pantheon

Published: 1987

Total Pages: 136

ISBN-13:

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Bestselling author Marguerite Duras offers a riveting novel about a savage murder in a small French town and the tragic events leading up to it.

Four Novels

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Author: Marguerite Duras

Publisher: Grove Press

Published: 1990

Total Pages: 274

ISBN-13: 9780802151117

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"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 central 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."--Publisher description.

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