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| | MARGUERITE DURAS, the woman, the writer |
 | | There is no denying that the temperament and burning passion for life she had inherited from her mother were far better suited to writing novels than to cultivating rice or growing grapes. |
 | | This became quite apparent when Duras published her first novel, The Impudents, in 1943, and the following year, La Vie Tranquille, which the writer Raymond Queneau, impressed by the young talent, had published with Gallimard. |
 | | It became all the more apparent when she published The Sea Wall, in 1950, a shortlisted novel with which she narrowly missed the Prix Goncourt due, by all accounts, to her Communist sympathies. |
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