num_pages: 91
description: 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.
language: English
title: Writing
titlecomplete: Writing
genres: Essays, Short Stories, Biography, French Literature, Womens, School, Literature, Nonfiction, Writing, France
ratings_count: 3030
publisher: Brookline Books