The feminization of surrealism
Subtitle: the road to surreal silence in selected works of Marguerite Duras
By: Lisa F. Signori.
Series: Francophone cultures and literatures ;; v. 31
Publisher: P. Lang
Published: 2001
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 156
Subjects: Duras, Marguerite -- Criticism and interpretation.; Silence in literature.
Description: "Marguerite Duras's writing is analogous to the surrealist endeavor, though her work is rarely compared to surrealist principles. This study proposes a detailed analysis of Duras's relationship to the male-dominated literary domain of Surrealism, founded in France in 1924 by Andre Breton. Such an approach allows a greater understanding of her work and broadens the realm of surrealist aesthetics to include the female experience. With Duras's final text C'est tout in mind, this book suggests a reevaluation of the Durassian corpus based on a comparison of the ultimate silence of her texts to the surrealist ideal of the marvelous. This study shows how Duras's work encourages a reexamination of the surrealist movement to encompass the feminine unconscious, which finds its place in the realm of silence."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [127]-149) and index.