Name: Me & Other Writing
SKU: 53870796
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Author: Marguerite Duras
ISBN: 9781948980029

Type

Physical Book

Author

Marguerite Duras

Translated by

Emma Ramadan

Olivia Baes

Publisher

Dorothy a Publishing Project

Year

2019

Language

English

Pages

185

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

17.5x14x1.5 cm

Weight

0.23 kg.

ISBN13

9781948980029

Synopsis "Me & Other Writing "

A career-spanning collection of Marguerite Duras's genre-bending essays that Kirkus calls "a luminous, erudite exploration of the self and art." In her nonfiction as well as her fiction, Marguerite Duras's curiosity was endless, her intellect voracious. Within a single essay she might roam from Flaubert to the "scattering of desire" to the Holocaust; within the body of her essays overall, style is always evolving, subject matter shifting, as her mind pushes beyond the obvious toward ever-original ground. Me & Other Writing is a guidebook to the extraordinary breadth of Duras's nonfiction. From the stunning one-page "Me" to the sprawling 70-page "Summer 80," there is not a piece in this collection that can be easily categorized. These are essayistic works written for their times but too virtuosic to be relegated to history, works of commentary or recollection or reportage that are also, unmistakably, works of art.

Marguerite Duras

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Marguerite Duras (1914-1996) was a French writer, screenwriter, and filmmaker, known for her innovative style and exploration of memory, desire, and identity. Her most famous work is The Lover (1984), an autobiographical novel that won the prestigious Goncourt Prize. Other notable works include Hiroshima mon amour (1960), The Ravishing of Lol V. Stein (1964), and The Vice-Consul (1966), which solidified her reputation in contemporary literature.

Duras ventured into cinema, writing and directing films with an experimental approach. Her narrative, characterized by minimalist and evocative prose, influenced literature and cinema in the 20th century. Her legacy remains relevant, and her books continue to be studied and admired around the world.

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