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Hiroshima mon amour

DEBORAH LESKO BAKER (ESSAY DATE 1998)

SOURCE: Baker, Deborah Lesko. "Memory, Love, and Inaccessibility in Hiroshima mon amour. "In Marguerite Duras Lives On, edited by Janine Ricouart, pp. 27-37. Lanham, Md.: University Press of America, 1998.

In the following essay, Baker reviews Duras's representation of forbidden love in her screenplay Hiroshima mon amour and its relationship to the Tristan story.

The classic French film, Hiroshima mon amour (dir. Alain Resnais, 1959), explores several critical obsessions that traverse the life and literary career of screenwriter Marguerite Duras as she has risen to the stature of one of France's most eminent female writers. As the psychoanalytic investigations of critics like Julia Kristeva and Sharon Willis have suggested, these obsessions involve...

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1. Introduction
2. Principal Works
3. Primary Sources
   1. Marguerite Duras And Alice A. Jardine (Interview Date 1988)
4. General Commentary
   1. Trista Selous (Essay Date 1988)
   2. Lisa F. Signori (Essay Date 2001)
5. Title Commentary
   1. The Malady of Death
   2. Hiroshima mon amour
6. Further Reading
7. Copyright

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