Duras, Marguerite (Vol. 3) - Duras, Marguerite 1914–
Duras, Marguerite 1914–
Mme. Duras is a French novelist, playwright, and screenwriter whose novels derive their narrative technique from motion pictures. Hiroshima mon amour, a screenplay, can be regarded as a key to her fictional method. (See also Contemporary Authors, Vols. 25-28.)
Although the characters in Marguerite Duras' novels are less preoccupied with the meaning of being than Virginia Woolf's, they seek with equal zeal to establish their identity and through this identity to relate themselves to others, to move toward "that distant bank upon which they, the others, dwell." In her earlier works, this search concerns itself with identity as it is defined by role, family, and society. In these works, the pristine consciousness of the heroine receives life, records its intricacies, and attempts to visualize the pattern formed and to place itself within it. In the slightly later Le Square (1955), however, the heroine is no...
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