Le dégoût pour la raison face à la réalité sociale du XXe siècle dans des écrits choisis de Marguerite Duras
“Disregard of Reason in the Social Realities of the 20th in Selected Literary Works by Marguerite Duras”

Summary/Abstract: One of the important problems raised in the works by Marguerite Duras is a specific opposition to rationalism, understood as the loss of meaning and absurdity of human existence in the face of the tragedy of World War Two. In this way, the author presents her attitude to Nazi barbarism, and in a broader context to the history of mankind. Her texts − exposing the writer’s doubts and obsessions − express the lack of logic of the world, the painful awareness of the inevitability of misfortune, existential emptiness, and the powerlessness of a man towards his own impotence. By rejecting “material life”, Duras’s work resounds with the contestation of rationalism illustrating the paradoxes of the 20th century, connected on the one hand with the possibilities and, on the other, with the limitations and suffering of the human being. Duras’s works emphasize emphatically the shortcomings of humanistic thought and the helplessness of philosophy, emphasizing the huge role of extrasensory sphere of sensations and feelings as well as artistic intuition in the perception of reality deconstructed by the exercise of the imaginary.

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