Duras, Marguerite (Pseudonym of Marguerite Donnadieu) - Duras, Marguerite (Pseudonym of Marguerite Donnadieu) 1914–
Duras, Marguerite (Pseudonym of Marguerite Donnadieu) 1914–
Mlle Duras, born in French Indochina near present-day Saigon, is a French novelist, playwright, and screenwriter. One critic has written that certain traits recur in the principal plays, novels, and scenarios: "the skillful evocation of place and atmosphere, the deft substitution of external violence, a murder, or fatal accident, for psychological motivation, syncopated dialogue for explicatory narrative." Although her work resembles that of the "New Novelists" in that it does without plot, action, and psychological explanation, she has rejected that label. The incantatory nature of the dialogue around which her best fiction is built, her strong visual sense, and her singular approach to time as "the vital protagonist, the dramatic catalyst and crucible," make her novels particularly well suited to film treatment. Many critics consider her filmscript "Hiroshima mon amour" her finest work. (See...
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