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Writing
by Marguerite Duras
translated by Mark Polizzotti ISBN 1-57129-053-2 • $15.95 sc
Written in the splendid bareness of her late style, these pages are Marguerite
Duras' theory of literature. Comparing a dying fly to the work of style,
remembering the trance and incurable disarray of writing, recreating the last
moments of a British pilot shot during World War II and buried next to her house,
or else letting out a magisterial So what? to question six decades of story telling,
all operate as a deceitful, yet indespensable confession.
Born in 1914 in French Indochina, Marguerite Duras, one of France's most
important 20th-century literary figures, is perhaps best known in the U.S. for her
screenplay Hiroshima, Mon Amour and her novel The Lover, which won the 1984
Prix Goncourt and was made into a widely acclaimed film released in 1992. Mme.
Duras died on the fourth of March, 1996.
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