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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 decades of storytelling, all the essays together operate as a deceitful, yet indispensable confession.

91 pages, Paperback

First published September 15, 1993

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Marguerite Duras

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Marguerite Germaine Marie Donnadieu, (4 April 1914 -3 March 1996) known as Marguerite Duras, was a French novelist, playwright, screenwriter, essayist, and experimental filmmaker.

Her script for the film Hiroshima mon amour (1959) earned her a nomination for Best Original Screenplay at the Academy Awards.

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Omlouvám se za narušení Hunger Games maratonu, ale potřebovala jsem si přečíst zas něco francouzskyho před snad už mojí poslední zkouškou tady v Paříži. Každopádně u tohohle jsem fakt tweakovala, nejenom z toho, co a jak bylo napsaný, ale i z formátu, kdy se během stránky úplně randomly a nenápadně začal zvětšovat nebo zmenšovat font? A její hlavni myšlenka, že potřebuje psát a musí psát, a pak najednou že si představuje jak zabiji všechny Němce (psaný v roce ‘93 btw), zajímavý.
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