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...

The extension of war to civilian targets in World War II opened up the 'war experience' to many women who had been previously outside of it. Women in France were also greatly involved in the Resistance movement with Simone de Beauvoir and Marguerite Duras...

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,...

Middle East: Violence between rival Palestinian factions has erupted across the Gaza Strip. The death toll since the fighting escalated Saturday has hit 70. But in the West, none dare call it a civil war.The intelligentsia of the developed world have too much invested in...

Two new translations of Leo Tolstoy’s War and Peace will be published in the United States this fall, one claiming to be the definitive version and the other claiming to be the long lost, more accessible first draft. The first translation, out on Knopf in...