Writing
By: Marguerite Duras ; translated from the French by Mark Polizzotti.
Contributors: Polizzotti, Mark.
Publisher: Lumen Edtions
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 91
Subjects: Duras, Marguerite -- Translations into English
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; or else letting out a magisterial 'So what?' to question six decades of story telling, all operate as an indispensable confession. The final literary testament of one of the greatest French writers of the twentieth century.