Duras, Marguerite - Marguerite Duras And Alice A. Jardine (Interview Date 1988)
MARGUERITE DURAS AND ALICE A. JARDINE (INTERVIEW DATE 1988)
SOURCE: Duras, Marguerite, and Alice A. Jardine. “Marguerite Duras,” translated by Katherine Ann Jensen. In Shifting Scenes: Interviews on Women, Writing, and Politics in Post-68 France, edited by Alice A. Jardine and Anne M. Menke, pp. 71-8. New York: Columbia University Press, 1991.
In the following interview, Duras discusses her ideas on writing as a woman and on misogyny in both France and America.
[Jardine]: Question 1: What does it mean to you to write at the end of the twentieth century?
[Duras:]—Writing … I’ve never asked myself to be aware of what time period I was living in. I have asked myself this question in relation to my child and his future activities, or in wondering what would become of the working class—you see, in relation to political considerations or issues. But not as concerns writing. I...
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