Hiroshima, Mon Amour , about the brief love affair between a French actress and a Japanese businessman. After the May 1968 students' revolt Duras's writing grew increasingly abstract. She voluntarily rejected all the aesthetic and stylistic techniques familiar from her earlier work. Duras's sparse, yet suggestive style, and her use of language was much discussed by feminists as embodying feminine writing. When a woman drinks it's as if an animal were drinking, or a child.
Alcoholism is scandalous in woman, and a female alcoholic is rare, a serious matter.
It's a slur on the divine in our nature. I realised the scandal I was causing around me. From the 1970s Duras concentrated on making films and publishing screenplays. The story was made into a film. Although Duras helped writers opposing Nazis during World War II, among others Robert Antelme, who was imprisoned in Dachau, she has been accused of being member of literary committee controlled by the Germans.