Bibliography

Harvey, Robert Hèléne Volat. Marguerite Duras: A Bio-Bibliography. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1997, 273 p.

Reference guide to Duras's life and works.

Biographies

Adler, Laure. Marguerite Duras: A Life, translated by Anne-Marie Glasheen. London: Victor Gollancz, 1998, 424 p.

Biography that seeks to circumvent Duras's deliberate attempts to hide the facts associated with certain areas of her life.

Vircondelet, Alain. Duras: A Biography. Translated by Thomas Buckley. Normal, Ill.: Dalkey Archive Press, 1994, 378 p.

Celebrated biography whose author acknowledges the difficulty of accurately capturing the story of Duras's complicated, unconventional life.

Criticism

Baker, Deborah Lesko. "A Rethinking of Genre and Gender through a Reading of Yes peut-être. "In Marguerite Duras Lives On, edited by Janine Ricouart, pp. 11-25. Lanham, Md.: University Press of America, 1998.

Maintains that Duras's text blurs the distinction between prose and poetry and at the same time collapses the distinction between masculine and feminine...