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Du souvenir à l’image : enjeux narratifs dans L’Amant

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Ledwina A.
Quêtes littéraires
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2015
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issue 5
171-179
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In Marguerite Duras’ works the boundaries between text and image become fluid. This is particularly evident in The Lover, where descriptions of events and characters resemble yellowed photographs, constantly evoking images. The author strives to recreate faithfully certain past incidents, particularly from childhood and youth, such as meeting a Chinese millionaire, which was of paramount importance in her life. However, she is inconsistent in this and does not always follow typical rules of writing a semi-autobiographical work. She attempts to reconstruct the story of her life, emphasising the image in text and its perception by the character and the reader. Breaking of the "autobiographical pact" by blending fact and fiction, truth and falsehood implies a novel narrative technique, visible e.g. in the characteristic duality of the narrator, who is also the protagonist, present in the first and third person, either the subject or an object. This is an intriguing vision of reality, understood as an image locked in memories, created with original narrative solutions, where the reader becomes a spectator.
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La vanité et le tragique existentiel dans l ’œuvre durassienne

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Ledwina A.
Quêtes littéraires
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2018
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vol. 8
140-152
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Duras ’s work is a deep reflection on the emptiness of the human condition. In her works, a man realizes his/her inability to live in a senseless, unfriendly world in which all efforts to change the course of events or improve fate turn out to be futile. Therefore they express senselessness of any activity or commitment of the individual as confronted with the cruelty of fate. This state of affairs results from the inseparable connection between life and death inscribed in human nature. The works by Duras reflect the end of the world so per-ceived and the absurd manifestations of the inevitable disaster. In this dramatic way, the author shows the tragedy of human existence associated, in particular, with the despair of suffering and injustice. The protagonists who are powerless and lost in pre-carious reality submit passively to unrelenting fate.
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L ’œuvre de Marguerite Duras est une profonde réflexion sur la vani-té de la condition humaine. Ses ouvrages présentent l ’individu qui se rend compte de l ’impossibilité à vivre dans un monde privé de sens et hostile où tous les efforts pour changer le cours des événements ou d ’améliorer son sort se révèlent insigni-fiants. Ainsi, ils expriment la vanité de toute action humaine, de tout engagement par rapport à une fatalité cruelle des êtres humains. Cet état de choses, résulte, semble-t-il, d ’un lien inséparable de la vie et de la mort, inscrit dans la nature humaine.Les textes durassiens reflètent la fin d ’un tel monde ainsi que les avatars absurdes d ’un malheur inévitable. De façon dramatique, l ’auteure démontre le tragique exis-tentiel lié, en particulier, à l ’injustice, au désespoir, à la souffrance. Impuissants, éga-rés dans un univers incertain, les personnages durassiens se soumettent passivement à un destin inexorable.
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Le Navire Night : le mélange des genres et des arts

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Ledwina A.
Quêtes littéraires
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2016
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issue 6
91-99
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The works of Marguerite Duras show visible hybridity, broadly understood as a mixture of genres, correspondence of the arts, or intertextuality. Her texts reflect, par excellence, this tendency because they keep departing from classical forms. Consequently, the same text can be interpreted as a novel, screenplay, or film. This transgression seemingly results from the versatility of changing artistic interests of Duras, who, while writing, was fascinated by film-making and all possibilities of experimentation. The transgression is confirmed by a kind of polyphony of voices in her works, which makes them both extremely suggestive and open. A prime example of this technique is Le Navire Night. According to the concept of poetical-novelistic or cinematic writing, it can be seen as a ‘hybrid’ work. Therefore, Le Navire Night is sometimes read as a poem as understood by Henri Meschonnic, referring to the creativity of the author, especially in the field of language
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Le périple erratique de la mendiante durassienne

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Ledwina A.
Academic Journal of Modern Philology
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2022
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vol. Special Issue
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issue 17
67-74
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Marguerite Duras focuses on a rejected individual on the margins of society. Her literary characters oppose being perceived as devoid of autonomy, contesting the fixed model of a submissive and passive woman. On the contrary, they reject the social order and the traditional system of values, claiming the right to freedom and thus demonstrating transgressive female behaviour. Duras’ heroine, a mysterious, crazy person who is looking for love and is aware of her otherness and alienation, appears as a kind of femme fatale or a witch. This image of a “different woman – a disturbing, unhappy, lost, borderline person experiencing a specific crisis – is best illustrated by a beggar. She identifies, par excellence, with the wandering to the lands of perdition and its various readings. Her journey is, at the same time, a sign of dereliction, an attempt at liberation and a quest for identity.
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