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	MARGUERITE DURAS, the woman, the writer
		Hers was, indeed, an astonishing face, as astonishing as her life story, from the young woman's sensual and disturbing elegance during the years between the wars to the sarcastic pout and reptilian gaze of the sacred contemporary monster, with provocative eyes glaring from behind her thick glasses.
		A key word when it comes to Marguerite Duras, who uses her novels, her plays and her films to study herself in as many mirrors; she identifies herself with her work to the point that she no longer knows what is autobiographical fact and what is fiction.
		Duras set about her writing with the same determination and obstinacy as her mother's with her plantations in Indochina and, later, in France, with wine-growing and cattle farming.
	www.angelfire.com /hi3/netherland/mduras.htm (1286 words)

	Marguerite Duras
		Although Duras had helped writers opposing Nazis during the war, she was also accused of being a member of literary committee controlled by the Germans.
		Duras was also accused of ignoring Okada's story, and drawing parallels between the Hiroshima holocaust and Riva's suffering.
		Duras lived with Andréa until her death in Paris on November 3, 1996.
	www.kirjasto.sci.fi /duras.htm (1853 words)

	Marguerite Duras (1915-1996)
		Duras used her novels, plays, and films to display an autobiography of her own life and feelings towards love, hate, sadness, and death.
		Marguerite's mother or the image of her mother is portrayed as the key figure in her life and work.
		The "Marguerite Duras" identity is established in her fictions as well as in public appearances; life and text play with and against one another.
	www.tallett.com /fr312k/CBA4332/DURAS (601 words)

	Duras, Marguerite Criticism and Essays
		Duras began filmmaking after a successful career as a novelist and scriptwriter.
		Raised in Indochina, Duras emigrated to Paris at age seventeen, where she studied law and physical science.
		Duras now prefers not to film her own literature, feeling that the audience is otherwise more concerned with the transition to the screen than with the film itself.
	www.enotes.com /contemporary-literary-criticism/duras-marguerite-vol-20 (359 words)

	Duras, Marguerite - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		DURAS, MARGUERITE [Duras, Marguerite], 1914-96, French author, b.
		Usually grouped with the exponents of the nouveau roman [new novel] (see French literature), Duras abandoned many of the conventions of the novel form.
		Duras wrote more than 70 novels, many of which have been made into films and most of which deal unsentimentally with love, despair, and sexual passion.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-duras-m1a.html (408 words)

	LitWeb.net
		Duras took her penname from the name of a village in France near where her father had owned property.
		Antelme was nursed by Duras, who had already planned to leave him, but waited for his recovery to marry the man who would be the father of his child.
		But Duras was not so much interested in abstract literary theories than examining the power of words, remembering, forgetting, and feelings of alienation.
	www.biblion.com /litweb/biogs/duras_marguerite.html (931 words)

	Writing/No More by Marguerite Duras - R A I N T A X I o n l i n e
		Duras ponders whether or not the collapse of the world might have begun on the day the small plane was shot from the sky over Vauville.
		In Writing, Duras tells us, "Writing is trying to know beforehand what one would write if one wrote, which one never knows until afterward." I think of Duras at that moment when she wrote "au revoir" and laid down her pen for the last time.
		Marguerite Duras was a writer and without the written word, she was, indeed, no more.
	www.raintaxi.com /online/1998fall/duras.shtml (775 words)

	Amazon.com: The Lover: Books: Marguerite Duras (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		Marguerite Duras has written, in retrospect, the hypnotic story of her odd relationship with the adult son of a Chinese millionnaire at least 15 yrs her senior.
		Her daughter, Duras, was left mostly to fend for herself at a boarding school that was unusually permissive with the odd comings and goings of this precocious child-woman.
		Duras tells this story from the distance of years, through a technique of oblique references, forgettings, reiteration, repetition (the straw hat, the dress, the shoes...), fractured images, and readers get the sense of coming at what happened reluctantly, as tho the author is a little unwilling to share everything with us.
	www.amazon.com /Lover-Marguerite-Duras/dp/0375700528 (1960 words)

	Vitro Nasu » Marguerite Duras
		Was first introduced to the text of M. Duras from a French class at the college.
		Margruete Duras was born on April 4, 1914.
		Marguerite Duras In Sa Dec, Vietnam is the setting for Duras’s autobiographical novel Lovers.
	www.mutanteggplant.com /vitro-nasu/category/marguerite-duras (1083 words)

	Duras, Marguerite LiteraryTraveler.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		Born Marguerite Donnadieu on April 4, 1914 in Gia-Dinh, Indochina (now Vietnam), Duras best-known novel was the autobiographical.
		Duras died in Paris in 1996 at the age of 82 of cancer.
		French writer Marguerite Duras spent some of her childhood in Sa Dec, a sprawling busy town in the Mekong Delta of Vietnam.
	www.literarytraveler.com /authors/duras_marguerite.aspx (361 words)

	Marguerite Duras - MSN Encarta
		Marguerite Duras (1914-1996), French novelist, playwright, motion-picture director, and screenwriter, who first achieved international fame for her screenplay Hiroshima mon amour (Hiroshima My Love, 1959).
		She was born Marguerite Donnadieu in Saigon, Indochina (now Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam).
		Duras moved to Paris in the early 1930s to study law and politics.
	encarta.msn.com /encnet/refpages/refarticle.aspx?refid=761564510 (263 words)

	Amazon.ca: The War: A Memoir: Books: Marguerite Duras (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		Marguerite Duras, one of France's most important writers, was a member of the French Resistance movement throughout the Second World War.
		In Nazi-occupied France during WW II, Duras (The Lovers; Hiroshima, Mon Amour was a major figure in the Resistance.
		Her intent, which has a much larger scope than a memoir with the structure of a simple diary, seemes to be to humanize and personalize the wartime chaos and utter dehumanization of 1940s France under Nazi domination.
	www.amazon.ca /War-Memoir-Marguerite-Duras/dp/1565842219 (505 words)

	Marguerite Duras - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Marguerite Donnadieu, better known as Marguerite Duras, (April 4, 1914 – March 3, 1996) was a French writer and film director.
		She was born in Saigon, French Indochina (now Vietnam), and went to France, her parents' native country, to study law, but became a writer instead.
		She changed her name in 1943 for Duras, the name of a village in the Lot-et-Garonne département, where her father's house was located.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Marguerite_Duras (577 words)

	Duras Books - Signed, used, new, out-of-print
		This is a largely autobiographical novel of Duras, her family, and the political climate of 1930's Saigon.
		In this volume of four short novels, Duras demonstrates her remarkable ability to create an emotional intensity and unity by focusing on the intimate details of the relationships among a few central characters.
		Perhaps the most admired of all Marguerite Duras's novels, "Moderato Cantabile" is almost a twentieth-century Madame Bovary in its picture of the dissatisfied wife of a rich provincial industrialist, who forms an attachment to one of her husband's workmen.
	www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Duras (803 words)

	Marguerite, A Reflection of Herself
		Marguerite Duras (1914-1996) - best-known as the author of The Lover and for the screenplay for Hiroshima, Mon Amour (the classic 1960 New Wave film directed by Alain Resnais) - was one of the most prolific, controversial, and renowned cultural figures in post-war France.
		Throughout the film Marguerite Duras goes from pain to joy, from the serious to the anecdotal, with lightning speed.
		The montage-like composite is especially fitting for Duras, because she almost always wrote as if she were of two minds (a participant and an observer), with the result that nearly all her work is personal and (at some level) autobiographical.
	www.frif.com /new2003/dur.html (691 words)

	Marguerite Duras (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		Un mot clé chez Marguerite Duras, qui se regarde dans ses romans, son théâtre et ses films comme dans autant de miroirs et s'identifie à son oeuvre au point de ne plus savoir ce qui est autobiographie et ce qui est fiction.
		Duras s'investira dans la littérature avec la même détermination et la même opiniâtreté que sa mère dans ses plantations d'Indochine ou, plus tard, en France, dans la viticulture et l'élevage.
		A trente ans, dans le bouillonnement créatif de l'après-guerre, Duras, qui voisine avec Sartre à Saint-Germain-des-Prés, est déjà une vedette de l'intelligentsia parisienne.
	www.france.diplomatie.fr /label_france/FRANCE/LETTRES/DURAS/duras.html (1375 words)

	nwFilmCenter \| nowshowing
		Best known for her autobiographical novel THE LOVER and her cinematic collaboration with Alain Resnais, HIROSHIMA MON AMOUR, Marguerite Duras was one the most prolific and controversial figures in post-war France.
		Curated by Irina Leimbacher af the San Francisco Cinemateque and presented with the cooperation of the Consulate General of France in San Francisco and the Ministère des Affaires Etrangères in Paris, The Cinema Project and the Film Center are pleased to present these wonderfully complex films.
		“This eloquent portrait of Duras by her collaborator and editor Dominique Auvray incorporates a rich array of archival materials from Duras’ childhood in what is now Vietnam and throughout her long career as both writer and filmmaker.”—Irina Leimbacher.
	www.nwfilm.org /archives/schedule_2005/jun_jul_aug/nowshowing/duras (390 words)

	Marguerite Duras — www.greenwood.com
		The painstaking care and intelligence with which the authors have prepared their bio-bibliography of Duras is a gift to present and future researchers of Duras's literary, filmic, dramatic, and journalistic oeuvre.
		Description: Born in a northern suburb of Saigon in 1914, Marguerite Duras became one of the most prolific and analyzed figures in 20th-century French literature and film.
		It includes all works by Duras extant at the time of her death in March 1996, along with secondary sources published by the end of 1994.
	www.greenwood.com /catalog/GR8898.aspx (381 words)

	Marguerite Duras
		Marguerite Duras, the daughter of French schoolteachers, was born in Gia Dinh, Vietnam, on 4th April, 1914.
		At the age of seventeen Duras moved to France where she studied law and politics at the University of Paris.
		Marguerite Duras died in Paris on 3rd March, 1996.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /FRduras.htm (140 words)

	Marguerite Duras (1914-1996)
		Marguerite Duras was born in Gia Dinh, Vietnam.
		Antelme was nursed by Duras, who had already earlier planned to leave him, but waited for his recovery, to marry then the man who would be the father of his child.
		Her sparse and limpid, yet suggestive style and her use of language was much discussed by feminists as embodying feminine writing.
	members.tripod.com /istudio/biography.htm (420 words)

	Marguerite Duras
		during the 1970s, Duras devoted her time almost exclusively to film; during this decade, she wrote only three film scripts that were not filmed, yet she produced 13 films in this decade, 5 in 1979 alone.
		Janet Thormann, "Feminine Masquerade in L’Amant: Duras with Lacan," Literature and Psychology, 1994, 40:4, 28-39.
		It is not an essence or nature, but a reverse of an essence or nature; it is a name for that which provokes crisis in the realm of representation by producing irreducible difference.
	www.umass.edu /complit/ogscl/jana/janadurasbiobib.htm (1486 words)

	AllRefer.com - Marguerite Duras (French Literature, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		AllRefer.com - Marguerite Duras (French Literature, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Marguerite Duras[mArgurEt´ dUrAs´] Pronunciation Key, 1914–96, French author, b.
		Duras's experience as a film writer : she wrote the screenplay for Alain Resnais's Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959), among many others : and as a director significantly influenced her tersely simple narrative technique.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/D/Duras-Ma.html (356 words)

	Marguerite Duras In Sa Dec LiteraryTraveler.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		In Sa Dec director Jean-Jaques Annaud shot much of his 1992 film, The Lover with Jane March as the waif-like French fifteen year old with the devastating sense of style and Tony Leung as her rich, elegant Chinese lover.
		Both the school where Duras' mother taught and the small house behind it where the family must have lived still stand.
		From the age of 28 when she wrote her first novel, Les Impudents, until her death in 1996 at the age of 82, she published prolifically, effortlessly traversing literary genre novels, essays, plays, film scripts, journalism, autobiography.
	www.literarytraveler.com /margueriteduras/margueriteduras.htm (424 words)

	The Saigon of Marguerite Duras - New York Times
		No one understood this better than Marguerite Duras, the French writer who was born in colonial Indochina in 1914 and spent her childhood there.
		At the age of 15, Duras, then living with her mother and two brothers in Sa Dec, a town on the Mekong River, began an affair with the 27-year-old son of a rich Chinese landowner.
		They met on a ferryboat, and soon she was sneaking away from her boarding school in Saigon to spend hot-and-heavy evenings in his "bachelor's quarters" in Cholon, the city's enormous ethnic Chinatown.
	travel2.nytimes.com /2006/04/30/travel/30footstep.html (969 words)

	Marguerite Duras Biography
		Duras was born Marguerite Donnadieu on April 14, 1914, in French Indochina, a region that is now part of South Vietnam.
		Duras graduated from a high school in Saigon and, at the age of eighteen, moved to Paris, France, to attend college.
		From 1935 to 1941, Duras worked as a secretary in the French Ministry of Colonies.
	www.enotes.com /india-song/71082 (194 words)

	Adler, Laure: Marguerite Duras
		When Marguerite Duras was published in France in 1998, it reached the top of the bestseller lists immediately, and Duras, who had led an unapologetically controversial life, was propelled once again into the headlines.
		The author of The Lover, Hiroshima Mon Amour, and The War: A Memoir, Duras has long been a symbol of France's complex role in World War II and the country's troubled colonial relations in Asia, as well as a fascinating embodiment of the tensions between autobiography and fiction.
		Adler, through her exploration of the events central to Duras's career, including her affair with and eventual denunciation of a Nazi collaborator and her childhood in Indochina, reveals Duras as the consummate pragmatist.
	www.press.uchicago.edu /cgi-bin/hfs.cgi/00/14142.ctl (201 words)

	Marguerite Duras
		A common theme in Duras' work is the "translation" of texts from one artistic medium to another, reflected in films such as La Femme du Gange and India Song, which are partial rewrites of the novel Le Vice-consul.
		Also, the autobiographical story captured in The Lover is rewritten and altered (répétition et différence) in the 1991 novel LíAmant de la Chine du Nord [translated as The North China Lover], a terse -- although lengthy -- prosaic text written almost exclusively in third person and in a strikingly minimalist style.
		Analyze the significance of the "mother" and the maternal relationship in Duras' The Lover.
	www.umass.edu /complit/aclanet/ACLAText/Duras2.html (1583 words)

	berniE-zine Book Reviews: The Sailor From Gibraltar, by Marguerite Duras
		The first thing I must iterate is this book is not a good representation of Marguerite Duras' talent. I have read eight of her many books, and this is the first that I have disliked.
		What begins as a tale of obsession slowly unravels to become merely a rambling account of the aimless wanderings of a very confusing cast of characters that the reader soon realizes he or she doesn't really care about.
		novels by Duras before this one, lest you be discouraged from reading anything else by this very important 20th Century author.
	www.homestead.com /RantsRavesReviews/SailorFromGibraltar.html (173 words)

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