UN BARRAGE CONTRE LE PACIFIQUE – LE RÉEL DISTORS OU LA POÉTIQUE DURASSIENNE
UN BARRAGE CONTRE LE PACIFIQUE (THE SEA WALL) – DISTORTED REALITY OR THE POETICS OF DURAS

Summary/Abstract: Marguerite Duras’s The Sea Wall is considered a novel with a traditional narrative. However, the struc- ture of the book, which refers to the writer’s childhood, turns out to be more complex. Considering the description of the literary characters, their behaviour, the way they express themselves, especially the dialogue form (the use of specific stylistic devices, i.e. diverse variations of reported speech), as well as the places where the action takes place and the time-space relations distort the model of a re- alistic novel. An insightful analysis of The Sea Wall allows us to understand Duras’ predilection for‘experimentation’ in terms of writing technique, which makes the novel - through a specific vision of reality – an extremely interesting melange of real and symbolic elements, highlighting the importance of the unconscious, i.e. instincts, obsessions, hidden desires, phantasms. These elements, modifying the novel structure, allow for a poetic reading of the prose text.

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