Duras, Marguerite
Duras, Marguerite ( 1914 – 96 ),French novelist, screenwriter, playwright, and film director, born in Indo-china. She used her own experience as source material, and, while her early works were traditional, after 1950 she more or less abandoned conventional narrative, her work becoming more symbolic and employing some of the techniques of the nouveau roman . In L'Amant ( 1984 ), for which she won the Prix Goncourt, she returns to the autobiographical material first explored in Un barrage contre le Pacifique ( 1950 ). Intensely passionate and deeply personal, it is widely seen as her most significant novel, although it may be for her screenplay for Alain Resnais's Hiroshima mon amour ( 1959 ) that she is more widely remembered.
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