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Third person to herself.(Margeurite Duras: A Life)(Book Review)
Margeurite Duras: A Life, by Laure Adler, translated by Anne-Marie Glasheen; Victor Gollancz, 2000, about $75.
HER LIFE was her best novel, and MD--or "La Duras" as even she referred to herself in old age--knew it. She kept ransacking it, covering her tracks, refining her ability to confuse the issue--"for having us believe lies she then ended up believing herself" as Laure Adler, a trained historian and French television pundit, puts it in this scrupulous biographical reconstruction not just of MD's life but of the many other visible and not so visible lives subsumed in her seventy-three books and nearly twenty films. One of the last sacred monsters of French ...
- Laure Adler. A ce soir.
- Magazine article from: World Literature Today Abramson, Julia March 22, 2002 700+ words
...2-07-076265-3 NEITHER A NOVEL nor exactly a memoir, Laure Adler's A ce soir gives a lapidary, sober account of a single...journalist and as a historian of women. Her biography Marguerite Duras, published in 1997 (see WLT 74:1, p. 111), took the...
- Marguerite Duras.(Review)(Brief Article)
- Magazine article from: World Literature Today January 1, 2000 700+ words
Laure Adler. Marguerite Duras. Paris. Gallimard. 1998. 627 pages + 16 plates. 155...In her scrupulously researched and documented biography, Laure Adler hails Marguerite Duras as "the voice of French literature in our hero- hungry...
- Duras, Marguerite
- Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography January 1, 2006 700+ words
...classmates. Encouraged by her mother, Duras embarked on a romantic and sexual liaison with a wealthy Asian man. One of Duras' many biographers, Laure Adler, working from an unpublished Duras diary, has asserted that Duras was essentially...
- Figures of scandal in the later narratives of Marguerite Duras.
- Magazine article from: The Romanic Review Poiana, Peter May 1, 2002 700+ words
...metaphysical turn that inspires Duras' writing during this period...notion of scandal. Scandal in Duras can be best approached by...still alive. Her biographer Laure Adler sums it up aptly: "Depuis longtemps Duras viole les regles de la bienseance...
- Contradictory images of Marguerite Duras
- Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times Nina Barrett August 3, 1986 700+ words
The WarBy Marguerite Duras. Pantheon. $13.95. Queen of the French literary scene, Marguerite Duras has only recently begun to attract a following...how to read this collection of pieces about Duras' activities in the French Resistance during...
- Marguerite Duras I: Les Recits des differences sexuelles.(Book review)
- Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review Rodgers, Catherine October 1, 2006 700+ words
Marguerite Duras 1: Les Recits des differences sexuelles...first volume of a series on Marguerite Duras, which in the words of its editor, Bernard...neutre, l'androgyne chez Marguerite Duras'; a neutral child figure, as for Johan...
- Objectifying the Subjective: The Autobiographical Act of Duras's The...
- Magazine article from: CRITIQUE: Studies in Contemporary Fiction STALEY, JEFFREY S. EDSON, LAURIE March 22, 2001 700+ words
...is invention in my work, it is there. Marguerite Duras, 1982 Marguerite Duras's novel The Lover seems to play on the difference...presents events and episodes that may have occurred in Duras's life. Readers may be tempted to view The Lover...
- Cruel Attentions: Duras' Twilight Affair.(Arts&Entertainment)(Review)
- Newspaper article from: The New York Observer (New York, NY) April 14, 2003 700+ words
...much-honored French author Marguerite Duras (1914-1996) and a 28-year-old college...Yann Lemmee (but renamed Yann Andrea by Duras). After a long correspondence between literary admirer and literary celebrity, Duras in 1980 summoned Yann to her side, where...
Source: HighBeam Research, Third person to herself.(Margeurite Duras: A Life)(Book Review)