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Writing
Written in the splendid bareness of her late style, these pages are Marguerite Duras's theory of literature: comparing a dying fly to the work of style; remembering the trance and incurable disarray of writing; recreating the last moments of a British pilot shot during World War II and buried next to her house; or else letting out a magisterial, so what? To question six de...more
Paperback, 91 pages
Published
June 6th 1998
by Brookline Books
(first published 1993)
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l' écrit ça arrive comme le vent, c'est nu, c'est de l'encre, c'est l'écrit, et ça passe comme rien d'autre ne passe dans la vie, rien de plus, sauf elle, la vie.
la solitude est toujour accompagnée de la folie. je le sais. on ne voit pas la folie. quelquefois seulement on la pressent. je ne crois pas qu'il puisse en etre autrement. quand on sort tout de soi, tout un livre, on est forcement dans l'état particulier d'une certaine solitude qu'on ne peut partager avec personne. on ne peut rien faire...more
la solitude est toujour accompagnée de la folie. je le sais. on ne voit pas la folie. quelquefois seulement on la pressent. je ne crois pas qu'il puisse en etre autrement. quand on sort tout de soi, tout un livre, on est forcement dans l'état particulier d'une certaine solitude qu'on ne peut partager avec personne. on ne peut rien faire...more
I am a big fan of Duras' fiction, but the first essay "Writing" in her book Writing rhapsodizes about writing & death in ways that are way too big for me to take seriously. The main idea I had a problem with, and perhaps I misunderstood her, was that life is a form of writing, that everyone can write, or writes through living. What about people who suffer but can't write? Who literally don't have the skills, the time, the luxury of solitude or time to write? Are their actions and life enough...more
For me Duras is a long poem, in different books as different verses.
تصور می کنم دوراس را هر زنی باید بخواند، و هر مردی. دوراس یک "سیمون دو بوار" دیگری ست، به همان بی پروایی، صلابت و قدرت، اما زنانه و ظریف. با نام دوراس همیشه به یاد سوزان سونتاگ می افتم و با نام سونتاگ، نام دوراس برایم تداعی می شود. برای خواندن و فهمیدن دوراس، باید حوصله و دقت داشت، همان گونه که برای خواندن ویرجینیا وولف.
بسیاری از آثار مارگریت دوراس به همت قاسم رویین به فارسی برگردانده شده است. "تابستان 80"، "بحر مکتوب"، "درد"،...more
تصور می کنم دوراس را هر زنی باید بخواند، و هر مردی. دوراس یک "سیمون دو بوار" دیگری ست، به همان بی پروایی، صلابت و قدرت، اما زنانه و ظریف. با نام دوراس همیشه به یاد سوزان سونتاگ می افتم و با نام سونتاگ، نام دوراس برایم تداعی می شود. برای خواندن و فهمیدن دوراس، باید حوصله و دقت داشت، همان گونه که برای خواندن ویرجینیا وولف.
بسیاری از آثار مارگریت دوراس به همت قاسم رویین به فارسی برگردانده شده است. "تابستان 80"، "بحر مکتوب"، "درد"،...more
Hmm, oisin varmaan tykännyt tästä enemmän nuorempana. Mutta se siitä, kun nyt kerta vasta luin. Duras vaikuttaa tosiaan tinkimättömältä ja rehelliseltä, jolle kirjoittaminen tuntuu olleen tärkein keino kestää elämää. Ja kirjoittaminen on kaikessa: yksinäisyys on kirjoittamista ja lukeminenkin on kirjoittamista. Annika Idströmin alkusanat oli hyvä lisä tähän.
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Ahhhh. Lovely writing. Lyrical, emotionally poignant observations on writing. And then she goes on to show how it's done in the heart-jerking story that follows her essay on writing, "The Death of the Young British Pilot." Small in stature, hard to get, but this book is worth each word.
Writing, is more a collection, in five sections, that bear a close resemblance to notes from the writer's journal. Her writing even in this form manages to create that special ambience, a suspended sensation that I am so drawn to.
Fragments and ideas. Half-scrawls. Fluid images, reflected through memory. Solitary longings. Solitary joys. Small sacred spaces vast in horizon and sweep. Tears in the prose where the light seeps through. Full of interest, full of love.
love the way she experiences life and the way she brings the way she has experienced life onto the page, into the words.
love her words, love her voice, love her pain, love her love.
love her words, love her voice, love her pain, love her love.
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"Writing is a stream of consciousness collection of essays by French author and film director Marguerite Duras, best known for her novel The Lover and her screenplay for the film Hiroshima Mon Amour.
One of her last books, Writing reads as a running meditation on the act of writing. She touches on the many subjects, especially death, that have compelled her to write. As much as she directs some of her prose to the reader, the essays quite often seem like Du...more
"Writing is a stream of consciousness collection of essays by French author and film director Marguerite Duras, best known for her novel The Lover and her screenplay for the film Hiroshima Mon Amour.
One of her last books, Writing reads as a running meditation on the act of writing. She touches on the many subjects, especially death, that have compelled her to write. As much as she directs some of her prose to the reader, the essays quite often seem like Du...more
Implacablement sévère et égocentrique, mais étrangement non désagréable.
"Pure" writing..."pure" thoughts..."screaming without a sound."
Sobretodo el segundo relato: La muerte del aviador inglés
Trumps anything I've read, ever.
Trois étoiles et demie pour la première partie du livre. Allons, disons-le: c'est la première fois que je la lis sans en avoir Duras-le-bol.
Peace.
É um livro bem interessante, pois mostra a vida de uma das maiores escritoras francesas de todos os tempos. É também um pouco perturbador saber que ela dedicou a vida inteira somente ä escrita, nunca casou, não teve filhos nem nada. Um livro curto, pode ser lido rapidamente.
writing is a silent shout.
also the phrase "sea foam" is beautiful.
also the phrase "sea foam" is beautiful.
I love this little book on writing. Love it!
no time to review, but simply recommend it.
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Marguerite Donnadieu, better known as Marguerite Duras (pronounced [maʀgəʁit dyˈʁas] in French) (April 4, 1914 – March 3, 1996) was a French writer and film director.
She was born at Gia-Dinh, near Saigon, French Indochina (now Vietnam), after her parents responded to a campaign by the French government encouraging people to work in the colony.
Marguerite's father fell ill soon after their arrival,...more
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She was born at Gia-Dinh, near Saigon, French Indochina (now Vietnam), after her parents responded to a campaign by the French government encouraging people to work in the colony.
Marguerite's father fell ill soon after their arrival,...more
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“The solitude of writing is a solitude without which writing could not be produced, or would crumble, drained bloodless by the search for something else to write.”
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“Finding yourself in a hole, at the bottom of a hole, in almost total solitude, and discovering that only writing can save you. To be without the slightest subject for a book, the slightest idea for a book, is to find yourself, once again, before a book. A vast emptiness. A possible book. Before nothing. Before something like living, naked writing, like something terrible, terrible to overcome.”
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