One of the most important literary figures in France, Marguerite Duras won international acclaim after she was awarded the 1984 Prix Goncourt for her autobiographical novel L'Amant (translated almost immediately into English as The Lover). Although...

Duras was one of France's most important and most prolific writers in the twentieth century. During her long writing career, she produced a large number of texts in a wide variety of genres. She is best known for her prize-winning...

Marguerite Donnadieu, better known as Marguerite Duras (pronounced [[maʁgəʁit dyˈʁas] in French) (April 4, 1914 – March 3, 1996) was a French writer and film...

Renate Guenther Marguerite Duras (French Film Directors) Manchester: Manchester University Press 2002 ALWAYS AND INSISTENTLY, in books or films, you hear that unmistakable voice. Its lyrical minimalism speaks in short sentences or even sentence fragments with relatively straight forward syntax,...

Marguerite Duras' writings contain an anticolonial attitude which lends itself to social criticism encompassing the marginalization of women and the underprivileged. Her stories can be analyzed along three polar axes: center/margin, inside/outside and subject/object. The central colonial power, such as the British Empire in...

Alain Resnais’ Last Year at Marienbad (1961), from a screenplay by Alain Robbe-Grillet, will be revived for the first time in decades at Film Forum for two weeks from Jan. 18 through Jan. 31 in a new 35mm Scope print. It was Resnais’ second feature-length...

In the essay below, Ramsay considers the autobiographical fiction genre and analyzes the language and structure of Duras' works.

In the following essay, Reid discusses the ways in which the café setting represents an “ideal inner space” in Duras's fiction.

In the following essay, which is based on an interview with Duras, Garis discusses how the author's views and life experiences have impacted her writing.