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This engrossing volume of newly published material from French novelist and memoirist Duras's wartime notebooks contains writing as roiled and violent as the years that produced it. Selections range from novella-length down to paragraph- or sentence-long fragments and include stories, polemics, notes and even an ad for a maid; the mix of fiction and nonfiction lets us follow characters, events and themes from Duras's autobiographical writings through various drafts into fictional form. Landmarks...
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Marguerite Duras: A Life
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 , Duras has long been a symbol of France's complex role in World War II and the country's troubled colonial relations in Asia, as well as a fascinating embodiment of the tensions between autobiography and fiction. Now...
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We found 5 used copies, 10 new copies, and 1 collectible copy of this book. (Show all copies of ISBN 9781595582003)
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Marguerite Duras: Apocalyptic Desires
The first fully detailed, complete account in English of the fiction and films of France's best-known and most controversial woman writer. Leslie Hill throws new light on Duras' relation with feminism, sexuality and psychoanalysis.
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The author, whose academic background is not provided, discusses how Duras's experiences shape the political and historical themes in her work; the relationship between words and images in her films, including her use of desynchronization; the politics of cinema in , , and gatives/>; and her treatment of gender and sexuality, particularly in and , and . Includes six b&w film stills, a filmography, and a selected bibliography. 5.25x8<">. Distributed by Palgrave. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland...
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This comprehensive biography of the internationally influential novelist Duras draws on 16 boxes of previously unavailable personal papers, as well as interviews with Duras's contemporaries. Her troubled childhood, epitomized by problematic relationships with her mother and brothers, her alcoholic tendencies, and her often contradictory political actions in Vichy Paris are elucidated here alongside consideration of her contribution to literary history.
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CD 1 : 1. Début de lentretien - 2. Les origines de la protestation étudiante - 3. Les soutiens du mouvement - 4. La responsabilité vers la liberté - 5. Laugmentation des salaires et linflation - 6. François Mitterrand et le Parti socialiste - 7. François Mitterrand dans la cohabitation - 8. Lélaboration et lapplication de la loi - 9. Le terrorisme - 10. Y a-t-il une légitimité des actions terroristes ? - 11. La lecture de lHistoire. CD 2 : 1. La peine de mort - 2. Le jugement - 3. Lobligation...
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In this volume of four short novels, Marguerite 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. Includes: The Square; 10:30 on a Summer Night; Moderato Cantabile; The Afternoon of Mr. Andesmas.
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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...
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This legendary and long-unavailable work by novelist, playwright and film director Marguerite Duras is an audiovisual poem haunted by the intoxicating dream of decadent colonialism and impossible love. The separately recorded soundtrack is a tapestry of ambient sounds, nostalgic music and Duras' superb prose, uttered by off-screen voices as the mouths of the protagonists remain closed: the ever-invisible beggar woman from Lahore, the consul's beautiful wife Anne-Marie Stretter (Delphine Seyrig),...
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Marguerite Duras was one of the twentieth century's most successful, prolific, and challenging authors. In this introduction, Martin Crowley provides a clear, accessible guide to Understanding Duras both as an important figure in her own right, and in her artistic, political, and philosophical contexts.--From the Publisher
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She was the sort of woman who spared neither herself nor others—and arguably qualifies as 20th-century France’s greatest femme de lettres. In this interview, the late novelist and filmmaker talks openly about the hardship and the romance of her childhood in French Indochina, sharing how this period haunted her life and shaped her work. Excerpts from her films and readings from her books by actress Elizabeth Rider and Duras herself—including The Lover, winner of the Prix Goncourt and translated into...
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Marguerite Duras : A Life by Laure Adler More New Books
We found 7 used copies, 6 new copies, and 2 collectible copies of this book. (Show all copies of ISBN 9780226007588)
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A l'epoque de la mousson en Inde, l'evocation de la vie sentimentale d'Anne-Marie Stretter (Delphine Seyrig), femme de l'ambassadeur de France. India Song est l'histoire extraordinaire d'un amour vecu, dans les annees 30, dans une ville surpeuplee des bords du Gange.
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Hiroshima Mon Amour - Alain Resnais, Marguerite Duras, Richard Seaver - Paperback - NON-FICTION - ENGLISH - 9780802131041
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This paper discusses how the use of various writing styles and shifts in person and tense relate to the novelist's intention to "cross boundaries" and to be "everywhere at once, yet nowhere in particular." Also discusses how the style of the novel imitates the process of memory, how it relates to the main character's effort to assimilate and recover from her past, and how it relates to the author's views on the craft of writing. 7 pages, 27 footnotes, 4 bibliographic sources. $49
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Profil d'une oeuvre . Duras, Marguerite.. Un barrage contre le Pacifique, 1950, Marguerite Duras.
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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...
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Marguerite Duras; Xaviere Gauthier WOMAN TO WOMAN University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, 1987. Cloth. First US Edition. 200pp: An edited transcript of several convsations between Marguerite Duras and a writer-friend, Xaviere Gauthier, on womens' issues in literature, film and society as a whole. A very fine copy; dustjacket isunmarked but priceclipped. Fine. Very Good. 0803216726. [Item #15933] Price: $15.00
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first comprehensive study of the author and his worlks, 147pp., index
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Marguerite Duras studied law and political science at the Sorbonne, where she was active in leftist circles. Upon graduation, she was married and worked as a secretary in the French Ministry of Colonies. Duras portrayed herself as a member of the Resistance during the German occupation of France in 1940, but actually worked for a German-controlled bureau that, among other things, censored books, and had a friend (who was possibly her lover) in the Gestapo. Duras denied any involvement with the Germans...
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The book includes a text by curator Sofía Hernández Chong Cuy written in epistolary form and introducing a video installation by artist Alejandro Cesarco. This is followed by an essay on Cesarco's artwork written by artist and writer Luis Camnitzer. The book also includes a series of images and stills of the video, which are accompanied by a bi-lingual (English and Spanish) text by Argentine writer Daniel Link-a text that was commissioned and included as part of the video installation itself. The book has a...
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"In order to write" said Simone de Beauvoir, "the first essential condition is that reality can no longer be taken for granted." She and four other French women writers of the second half of the twentieth century—Nathalie Sarraute, Marguerite Duras, Monique Wittig, and Maryse Condé—illustrate that producing autobiography is like performing a tightrope act on the slippery line between fact and fiction. Autobiographical Tightropes emphasizes the tension in the works of these major writers as they move in...
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