Writing

by Marguerite Duras, Mark Polizzotti (Translator)

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.

Genres: Writing, Nonfiction, France, Essays, Literature, French Literature, Short Stories

91 pages, Paperback

First published September 15, 1993

About the author

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.

Reviews

[deartomato]

「還有特徵不清的牲畜，浮腫塊，古老繪畫的輕柔筆觸，它本可以鑒別它們。一些符號看上去像物體。消逝和隱沒中的樹幹。潮濕的水源和青苔中的幾段海蛇身體。流動，出現，概念和物體間可能的接近，物體的永久性和虛幻性，關於概念、色彩、光線以及天知道其他事物的內容。」
全書最後一段，也說出我斷續讀了幾遍書後的感受。
一本很個人的書，杜拉斯以自己的風格經驗寫作，我用我的想法和情緒閱讀。

[Wenjing]

虽然短，但读了也会浪费时间。20%弃。