Au croisement de l’écriture (autobiographique) et du cinéma chez Marguerite Duras
At the Intersection of (Autobiographical) Writing and Cinematography in the Works by Marguerite Duras

Author(s): Anna Ledwina
Subject(s): Theoretical Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, Studies of Literature, French Literature, Philology
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: Duras; writing; cinema; autobiography; intertextuality; family
Summary/Abstract: In the work of Duras, a significant role is played by the image. It penetrates and stimulates her writing, refers to the author’s biography. Together with the publication of "Un barrage contre le Pacifique", she begins to write the history of her childhood, which overlaps with the beginnings of cinematography. In turn, "L’Éden cinéma, L’Amant and L’Amant de la Chine du Nord" enable readers to discover the unusually suggestive world of childhood presented through the sequences of the most important events from Duras’s young years. In this way, readers have the opportunity to understand the complexity and multidimensionality of the author’s rich oeuvre, using various means of expression, constantly recalling childhood memories that shaped Duras. The interpenetration of two elements − autobiography and cinematography − reveals the subtleties of the Duras’s writing technique. Therefore, the tenth muse makes it possible to read the work of Duras metaphorically, allowing its intertextual reading.

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