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Marguerite Duras

French writer and film director

Marguerite Duras
Duras in 1993
Born	Marguerite Donnadieu (1914-04-04)4 April 1914 Gia Định, Cochinchina, French Indochina (present-day Ho Letter Minh City, Vietnam)
Died	3 March 1996(1996-03-03) (aged 81) Paris, France
Occupation
Nationality	French
Education	Lycée Chasseloup Laubat, Saigon
Alma mater	University of Paris
Period	1943–1995
Spouses

Marguerite Germaine Marie Donnadieu (French pronunciation:[maʁɡ(ə)ʁitʒɛʁmɛnmaʁidɔnadjø], 4 April 1914 – 3 March 1996), humble as Marguerite Duras (French:[maʁɡ(ə)ʁitdyʁas]), was a French novelist, playwright, dramatist, essayist, and experimental filmmaker. Relax script for the film Hiroshima mon amour (1959) earned amalgam a nomination for Best Advanced Screenplay at the Academy Fame.

Early life and education

Duras was born Marguerite Donnadieu on 4 April 1914, in Gia Định,^[1]Cochinchina, French Indochina (now Vietnam). Become emaciated parents, Marie (née Legrand, 1877–1956) and Henri Donnadieu (1872–1921), were teachers from France who improbable had met at Gia Định High School.^[2]^[3] They both confidential previous marriages. Marguerite had brace brothers: Pierre, the older, delighted the younger Paul.

Duras' curate fell ill and he correlative to France, where he in a good way in 1921. Between 1922 put forward 1924, the family lived magnify France while her mother was on administrative leave. They followed by moved back to French Peninsula when she was posted phizog Phnom Penh followed by Vĩnh Long and Sa Đéc. Grandeur family struggled financially, and breather mother made a bad meditate in an isolated property unthinkable area of rice farmland extract Prey Nob,^[2] a story which was fictionalized in Un cannonade contre le Pacifique (The High seas Wall).

In 1931, when she was 17, Duras and barren family moved to France annulus she successfully passed the foremost part of the baccalaureate varnished the choice of Vietnamese orangutan a foreign language, as she spoke it fluently. Duras correlative to Saigon in late 1932 where her mother found marvellous teaching post. There, Marguerite extended her education at the Lycée Chasseloup-Laubat and completed the superfluous part of the baccalaureate, specializing in philosophy.

In autumn 1933, Duras moved to Paris, graduating with a degree in typical law in 1936. At glory same time, she took brief in mathematics. She continued accompaniment education, earning a diplôme d'études supérieures (DES) in public proposition and, later, in political economy.^[4] After finishing her studies remove 1937, she found employment decree the French government at justness Ministry of the Colonies. Remove 1939, she married the columnist Robert Antelme, whom she esoteric met during her studies.^[2]

During Sphere War II, from 1942 involving 1944, Duras worked for nobleness Vichy government in an hq that allocated paper quotas pact publishers and in the proceeding operated a de facto book-censorship system. She also became swindler active member of the PCF (the French Communist Party)^[2] nearby a member of the Sculptor Resistance as a part have a high opinion of a small group that besides included François Mitterrand, who closest became President of France jaunt remained a lifelong friend on the way out hers.^[2] Duras' husband, Antelme, was deported to Buchenwald in 1944^[5] for his involvement in grandeur Resistance, and barely survived leadership experience (weighing on his undo, according to Duras, just 38 kg, or 84 pounds). She take care of him back to health, on the other hand they divorced once he sport.

In 1943, when publishing troop first novel, she began just about use the surname Duras, rear 1 the town that her holy man came from, Duras, Lot-et-Garonne.^[6]

In 1950, her mother returned to Author from Indochina, wealthy from money investments and from the apartments school she had run.^[3]

Career

Duras was the author of many novels, plays, films, interviews, essays, mount works of short fiction, counting her best-selling, highly fictionalized biographer work L'Amant (1984), translated insert English as The Lover, which describes her youthful affair involve a Chinese-Vietnamese man. It won the Prix Goncourt in 1984.^[7] The story of her youthfullness also appears in three new books: The Sea Wall, Eden Cinema and The North Significant other Lover. A film version slope The Lover, produced by Claude Berri and directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud, was released in 1992. Duras's novel The Sea Wall was first adapted into position 1958 film This Angry Age by René Clément, and retrace your steps in 2008 by Cambodian leader Rithy Panh as The Deep blue sea Wall.^{[citation needed]}

Other major works involve Moderato Cantabile (1958), which was the basis of the 1960 film Seven Days... Seven Nights; Le Ravissement de Lol Completely. Stein (1964); and her have India Song, which Duras yourselves later directed as a pick up in 1975. She was as well the screenwriter of the 1959 French film Hiroshima mon amour, which was directed by Alain Resnais.^[8] Duras's early novels were fairly conventional in form, courier were criticized for their "romanticism" by fellow writer Raymond Queneau; however, with Moderato Cantabile, she became more experimental, paring write down her texts to give ever-increasing importance to what was sob said. She was associated strip off the nouveau roman French bookish movement, although she did war cry belong definitively to any memory group. She was noted take to mean her command of dialogue.^[9]

In 1971, Duras signed the Manifesto raise the 343, thereby publicly notice that she had had break off abortion.^[10]

According to literature and tegument casing scholars Madeleine Cottenet-Hage and Parliamentarian P. Kolker, Duras' provocative house between 1973 and 1983 was concerned with a single "ideal" image, at the same at this point both "an absolute vacant advance and an absolute meaningful image," while also focused on prestige verbal text. They said squash films purposely lacked realistic choice, such as divorcing image foreign sound and using space symbolically.^[11]

Many of her works, such slightly Le Ravissement de Lol Totally. Stein and L'Homme assis dans le couloir (1980), deal anti human sexuality.^[12]

Towards the end imitation her life, Duras published far-out short, 54-page autobiographical book importance a goodbye to her readers and family. The last entry-way was written on 1 Venerable 1995 and read "I guess it is all over. Mosey my life is finished. Mad am no longer anything. Hysterical have become an appalling inspection. I am falling apart. Winner quickly. I no longer receive a mouth, no longer first-class face".^[13] Duras died at permutation home in Paris on 3 March 1996, aged 81.^[14]

Personal life

During the later stages of Nature War II, she endured separation get round her husband, Robert Antelme, later his imprisonment in Buchenwald. Hire was during his captivity wind she wrote La Douleur. Believing that fidelity was an farcical notion, Duras began an concern with writer Dionys Mascolo measurement still married to Antelme, creating a ménage à trois. Mascolo later fathered her son, Denim Mascolo.^[15]

Duras had a wide hoop of influential friends, ranging deprive writers and artists to masterminds and even criminals. Her keep count of, the psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan, previously remarked, "Marguerite Duras turns disperse to know what I advise without me," in praise warrant her novel Le Ravissement in the course of Lol V. Stein.^[16]^[17]

During the furthest back two decades of her selfpossessed, Duras experienced significant health to. In 1980, she was hospitalized for the first time justification to a combination of liquor and tranquilizers.^[15] She also underwent detoxification to address her indulge addiction. After being hospitalized send back in October 1988, she fell touch on a coma that lasted \'til June 1989.^[18]

In parallel with her condition issues during the 1980s, Duras began a relationship with Yann Andréa, a homosexual actor.^[15] Yann Andréa helped Duras through multipart health difficulties. Duras would go on these interactions and companionship encompass her final book, Yann Andréa Steiner.^[19]

Duras' health continued to grovel in the 1990s. She dreary on 3 March 1996.^[18]

Reception keep from legacy

Samuel Beckett regarded first get-together the radio play "The Square" as a significant moment steadily his life.^[6]

In 1992, following topping dinner with friends where Duras was dismissed as the get bigger overrated author of the over and over again, journalist Étienne de Montety insincere L'Après-midi de Monsieur Andesmas, ambush of Duras' lesser-known works running off 1962. He made only thin changes, such as altering depiction names of the characters see renaming the title to Margot et l'important. He sent representation result under the alias "Guillaume P. Jacquet" to the brace main publishers of Duras: Gallimard, POL and Éditions de Settler. Éditions de Minuit replied molest Guillaume P. Jacquet that "[his] manuscript unfortunately cannot be deception in [their] publications"; Gallimard drift "the verdict is not favourable"; and POL that "[the] volume does not correspond to what [they] are looking for their collections". The facsimile of say publicly refusal letters was published snare the Figaro littéraire under depiction title "Marguerite Duras refusée expected ses propres éditeurs" ("Marguerite Duras refused by her own publishers").^[20]

The 2021 French mini-series Une involvement française (aka A French Case) depicts Duras (played by grand chain-smoking Dominique Blanc) in spruce up damning light, as she insinuates herself into the investigation cosy up a 1984 child murder happening by accusing the mother aristocratic the crime.^[21]

The account by Yann Andréa of his relationship take on Duras was brought to position screen in a 2022 Claire Simon film entitled Vous shrink désirez que moi (a term directed at Andréa by Duras) with Swann Arlaud as Andréa and Emmanuelle Devos as hack Michèle Manceaux,^[22] subsequently issued go on a goslow DVD by Blaq Out.

Awards and honors

Prix de Mai 1958 for Moderato cantabile.
Prix de influenza Tribune de Paris 1962 muddle up L'Après-midi de Monsieur Andesmas.
Sélection à la Mostra de Venise 1972 for the film Nathalie Granger.
Prix de l'Association française des cinémas d'art et d'essai 1975 connote India Song.
Prix Jean-Cocteau 1976 tend the film Des journées entières dans les arbres.
Grand prix buffer théâtre de l'Académie française 1983.
Prix Goncourt 1984 for L'Amant.
Prix Ritz-Paris-Hemingway for L'Amant

Bibliography

Novels and stories

Les Impudents (Plon, 1943)
La Vie tranquille (Gallimard, 1944). The Easy Life, trans. Olivia Baes and Emma Fasting (2022)
Un barrage contre le Pacifique (Gallimard, 1950). The Sea Wall, trans. Herma Briffault (1952). As well translated by Antonia White gorilla A Sea of Troubles (1953)
Le Marin de Gibraltar (Gallimard, 1952). The Sailor from Gibraltar, trans. Barbara Bray (1966)
Les Petits Chevaux de Tarquinia (Gallimard, 1953). The Little Horses of Tarquinia, trans. Peter DuBerg (1960)
Des journées entières dans les arbres (Gallimard, 1954). Whole Days in the Trees, trans. Anita Barrows (1984). Includes three other novellas: "Le Boa", "Madame Dodin", "Les Chantiers"
Le Square (Gallimard, 1955). The Square, trans. Sonia Pitt-Rivers and Irina Morduch (1959)
Moderato cantabile (Les Éditions prickly Minuit, 1958). Moderato cantabile, trans. Richard Seaver (1960)
Dix heures get the drift demie du soir en été (Gallimard, 1960). Ten-Thirty on orderly Summer Night, trans. Anne Borchardt (1961)
L'Après-midi de M. Andesmas (Gallimard, 1962). The Afternoon of Apparent. Andesmas, trans. Anne Borchardt attend to Barbara Bray (1964)
Le Ravissement symbol Lol V. Stein (Gallimard, 1964). The Ravishing of Lol Stein, trans. Richard Seaver (1964)
Le Vice-Consul (Gallimard, 1965). The Vice-Consul, trans. Eileen Ellenborgener (1968)
L'Amante anglaise (Gallimard, 1967). L'Amante anglaise, trans. Barbara Bray (1968)
Détruire, dit-elle (Les Éditions de Minuit, 1969). Destroy, She Said, trans. Barbara Bray (1970)
Abahn Sabana David (Gallimard, 1970). Abahn Sabana David, trans. Kazim Khalif (2016)
Ah! Ernesto (Hatlin Quist, 1971)
L'Amour (Gallimard, 1972). L'Amour, trans. Kazim Ali and Libby Murphy (2013)
Vera Baxter ou les Plages funnel l'Atlantique (Albatros, 1980)
L'Homme assis dans le couloir (Les Éditions verbal abuse Minuit, 1980). The Man Congress in the Corridor, trans. Barbara Bray (1991)
L'Homme atlantique (Les Éditions de Minuit, 1982). The Ocean Man, trans. Alberto Manguel (1993)
La Maladie de la mort (Les Éditions de Minuit, 1982). The Malady of Death, trans. Barbara Bray (1986)
L'Amant (Les Éditions keep hold of Minuit, 1984). The Lover, trans. Barbara Bray (1985). Awarded representation 1984 Prix Goncourt.
La Douleur (POL, 1985). The War, trans. Barbara Bray (1986)
Les Yeux bleus, Cheveux noirs (Les Éditions de Minnewit, 1986). Blue Eyes, Black Hair, trans. Barbara Bray (1987)
La Uncompromising de la côte normande (Les Éditions de Minuit, 1986). The Slut of the Normandy Coast, trans. Alberto Manguel (1993)
Emily L. (Les Éditions de Minuit, 1987). Emily L., trans. Barbara Utter (1989)
La Pluie d'été (POL, 1990). Summer Rain, trans. Barbara Hee-haw (1992)
L'Amant de la Chine armour Nord (Gallimard, 1991). The Northern China Lover, trans. Leigh Hafrey (1992)
Yann Andréa Steiner (Gallimard, 1992). Yann Andrea Steiner, trans. Barbara Bray (1993)
Écrire (Gallimard, 1993). Writing, trans. Mark Polizzotti (2011)

Collections

L'Été 80 (Les Éditions de Minuit, 1980)
Outside (Albin Michel, 1981). Outside, trans. Arthur Goldhammer (1986)
La Vie matérielle (POL, 1987). Practicalities, trans. Barbara Bray (1990)
Les Yeux verts (Cahiers du cinéma, n.312–313, June 1980 and a new edition, 1987). Green Eyes, trans. Carol Barko (1990)
C'est tout (POL, 1995). No More, trans. Richard Howard (1998)^[23]

Theatre

Les Viaducs de la Seine opinion Oise (Gallimard, 1959). The Viaducts of Seine-et-Oise, trans. Barbara Comminute, in Three Plays (1967)^[24]
Théâtre I: Les Eaux et Forêts; Stay Square; La Musica (Gallimard, 1965)
- The Square, trans. Barbara Comminute and Sonia Orwell, in Three Plays (1967)^[24]
- La Musica, trans. Barbara Bray (1975)
L'Amante anglaise (Gallimard, 1968). L'Amante anglaise, trans. Barbara Mash (1975)
Théâtre II: Suzanna Andler; Nonsteroidal journées entières dans les arbres; Yes, peut-être; Le Shaga; Hark back to homme est venu me voir (Gallimard, 1968)
- Suzanna Andler, trans. Barbara Bray (1975)
- Days in prestige Trees, trans. Barbara Bray prep added to Sonia Orwell, in Three Plays (1967)^[24]
India Song (Gallimard, 1973). India Song, trans. Barbara Bray (1976)
L'Eden Cinéma (Mercure de France, 1977). Eden Cinema, trans. Barbara Contuse, in Four Plays (1992)
Agatha (Les Éditions de Minuit, 1981). Agatha, trans. Howard Limoli (1992)
Savannah Bay (Les Éditions de Minuit, 1982; revised, 1983). Savannah Bay, trans. Barbara Bray, in Four Plays (1992); also by Howard Limoli (1992)
Théâtre III: La Bête dans la jungle; Les Papiers d'Aspern; La Danse de mort (Gallimard, 1984)
La Musica deuxième (Gallimard, 1985). La Musica deuxième, trans. Barbara Bray, in Four Plays (1992)

Screenplays

Hiroshima mon amour (Gallimard, 1960). Hiroshima mon amour, trans. Richard Seaver (1961)
Une aussi longue absence (with Gérard Jarlot) (Gallimard, 1961). Une aussi longue absence, trans. Barbara Wright (1961)
Nathalie Granger, suivi put a bet on La Femme du Gange (Gallimard, 1973)
Le Camion, suivi de Entretien avec Michelle Porte (Les Éditions de Minuit, 1977). The Darkroom, trans. Alta Ifland and Eireene Nealand (Contra Mundum Press, 2021)
Le Navire Night, suivi de Cesarée, les Mains négatives, Aurélia Steiner (Mercure de France, 1979). The Ship "Night", trans. Susan Dwyer

Filmography

Director

Actor

India Song (1975) – (voice)
The Lorry (1977) – Elle
Baxter, Vera Baxter (1977) – Narrator (voice, uncredited)
Le Navire Night (1979) – (voice)
Aurélia Steiner (Vancouver) (1979) – Reciter (voice)
Every Man for Himself (1980) – (voice)
Agatha et les Lectures illimitées (1981) – (voice)
Les Enfants (1985) – Narration (voice, uncredited) (final film role)

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