Literary Nonfiction. Fiction. Essay. Film. Literary Criticism. Translated by Olivia Baes and Emma Ramadan. Introduction by Dan Gunn. 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.

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CONTENTS

Introduction vii
Publisher's Note xvii

Flaubert Is . . . 1
The Sound and the Silence 13
My Mother Had . . . 19
Atlantic Black 30
Letter to Centre Rachi 35
Translation 37
I Thought Often . . . 39
Horror at Choisy-le-Roi 48
Nadine from Orange 57
Reading on the Train 67
True Appearances 78
The Men of Tomorrow 82
The Right, Our Death 88
The Horror of Such a Love 90
Me 93
Summer 80 95

Notes & Context 173
Translators' Afterword 181
Biographical Notes 187

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Format: TradePaperback
Author: Duras, Marguerite
ISBN: 9781948980029
Condition: Used
Dimensions: 6.90 x 0.60
Number Of Pages: 204
Publication Year: 2019

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