Marguerite Duras (1914–1996)
Author of The Lover
About the Author
Marguerite Duras was born in Gia-Dinh, Indochina on April 4, 1914. After attending school in Saigon, she moved to Paris, France to study law and political science. After graduation, she worked as a secretary in the French Ministry of the Colonies until 1941. During World War II, she joined the show more Resistance and published her first books. After the liberation, she became a member of the French Communist Party, and though she later resigned, she always described herself as a Marxist. Her first book, Les Impudents, was published in 1943. During her lifetime, she wrote more than 70 novels, plays, screenplays and adaptations. Her novels include The Sea Wall, The Lover, The Lover from Northern China, The War, and That's All. In 1959, she wrote her first film scenario, Hiroshima, Mon Amour, and has since been involved in a number of other films, including India Song, Baxter, Vera Baxter, Le Camion (The Truck), and The Lover. She died on March 4, 1996 at the age of 81. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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Works by Marguerite Duras
Four Novels: The Square / Moderato Cantabile / 10:30 on a Summer Night / The Afternoon of Mr. Andesmas (1965) 295 copies
Trilogy: "The Square", "Ten-thirty on a Summer Night", " Afternoon of Monsieur Andesmas" (Calderbooks) (1977) 15 copies
Marguerite Duras Coffret Oeuvres Completes III, IV : 1974-1995 [Bibliotheque de la Pleiade] (French Edition) (2014) 6 copies
India Song [1975 film] — Director / Screenwriter — 4 copies
DHIMBJA 2 copies
O Deslumbramento 2 copies
De man in de gang 2 copies
Naphosszat a fákon 2 copies
Stilla liv 2 copies
L'Amant - Un Barrage contre le Pacifique - Moderato cantabile - Dix heures et demie du soir en été - Hiroshima mon… (2015) 1 copy
Viết 1 copy
Fiche de lecture La Vie matérielle de Marguerite Duras (Analyse littéraire de référence et résumé complet)… (2019) 1 copy
The War Years 1 copy
Je léto, půl jedenácté večer 1 copy
Hmatatelný život 1 copy
Fiche de lecture L'Amant de Marguerite Duras (Analyse littéraire de référence et résumé complet) (French Edition) (2017) 1 copy
La vie maternelle 1 copy
L' amamte 1 copy
Maderato cantabile 1958 1 copy
India Song 1973 1 copy
Los Antilopes 1 copy
Perlouses set 2x 13+14+15 1 copy
සාගරයට වේල්ලක් 1 copy
Nada más (Spanish Edition) 1 copy
مدراتو کانتابیله 1 copy
Pisati 1 copy
Bir Kış Günü Öğleden Sonra 1 copy
Bay Andesman'ın İkindisi 1 copy
Les Enfants 1 copy
Ruya ve Kader 1 copy
Case di scrittori 1 copy
A dor 1 copy
Duras, Marguerite Archive 1 copy
Ο υποπρόξενος 1 copy
Índia Song 1 copy
Zomer '80 (1980) 1 copy
Jaune le Soleil 1 copy
Os inolentes 1 copy
EL CINE DEL EDEN 1 copy
Parkta 1 copy
La pluie d' 1 copy
Césarée 1 copy
De Boa (1954) 1 copy
Associated Works
Spectaculum IX. Sieben moderne Theaterstücke. Beckett - Duras - Mrozek - Shaw - Sperr - Steinheim - Weiss (1966) — Author — 5 copies
Memoir of War [2018 film] — Original book — 3 copies
10x passie-vrouwen vertellen — Contributor — 1 copy
Profil d'une oeuvre : Un barrage contre le Pacifique, 1950, Marguerite Duras (1996) — Contributor — 1 copy
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- Canonical name
- Duras, Marguerite
- Legal name
- Donnadieu, Marguerite Germaine Marie
- Birthdate
- 1914-04-04
- Date of death
- 1996-03-03
- Burial location
- Cimetière du Montparnasse, Paris, Île-de-France, France
- Gender
- female
- Nationality
- France
- Country (for map)
- France
- Birthplace
- Gia Định, French Cochinchina
- Place of death
- 6e arrondissement, Paris, Île-de-France, France
- Places of residence
- Gia Định, French Cochinchina (birth ∙ now Vietnam)
Paris, France - Education
- Sorbonne (1936|DES|1937)
- Occupations
- novelist
film director
screenwriter
playwright
essayist - Relationships
- Antelme, Robert (husband)
Mascolo, Dionys (husband) - Organizations
- French Communist Party
- Awards and honors
- Prix Goncourt (1984)
Prix Ritz Paris Hemingway (1986)
Austrian State Prize for European Literature (1989)
Prix de Mai (1958)
Prix de la Tribune de Paris (1962)
Prix Jean-Cocteau (1976) (show all 7)
Grand prix du théâtre de l'Académie française (1983) - Short biography
- Marguerite Duras was the pen name of Marguerite Donnadieu, born in Gia Dinh, French Indochina (now Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam) to Marie and Henri Donnadieu, teachers from France. In 1933, she went to France for her higher education. After completing studies at the Sorbonne in political science and law, she became a member of the French Communist Party (she would later be expelled). In the late 1930s, she worked for the French Ministry of the Colonies. During World War II, she worked for the Vichy government in an office that allocated paper quotas to publishers, a de facto book-censorship system, but also was a member of the French Resistance. In 1942, for the publication of her first novel, she chose Duras as her pen name for a village where her late father's house was located. Her career as an avant-garde writer took off in the 1950s with works such as Un barrage contre le Pacifique (The Sea Wall, 1950).
She was a prolific writer of plays, novels, short stories, essays, and screenplays, with many of her works marked by feelings of alienation. She returned often to the theme of love between people of different races. Her semi-autobiographical novel L'Amant (The Lover, 1984), about her youth in Indochina, won the Prix Goncourt, France's most prestigious literary prize.
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1914: Marguerite Duras - Resources and General Discussion in Literary Centennials (September 2015)
Duras: The Sea Wall in Author Theme Reads (January 2014)
1914: Duras - India Song in Literary Centennials (January 2014)
1914: Duras - The Sailor from Gibraltar in Literary Centennials (January 2014)
1914: Duras - Hiroshima Mon Amour in Literary Centennials (January 2014)
1914: Duras - The Sea Wall in Literary Centennials (January 2014)
Duras: Plays and Films in Author Theme Reads (December 2013)
Marguerite Duras: General Thread in Author Theme Reads (August 2013)
Duras: The Lover in Author Theme Reads (August 2013)
Duras: The North China Lover in Author Theme Reads (July 2013)
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The first half of the book consists of languid musings on the coast, observing children playing near the water. The summer of 1980 must have been lovely (I remember it as warm and sunny). In the second half of the book, Duras late style of crude association comes in, with insistent references to Gdansk. One would have to consult reference works to find out where this focus on Gdansk points, perhaps developments in Poland?… (more)