Pierre dumayet marguerite duras biography
Engaging with Pierre Dumayet’s description of Le Vice-consul () as the “last colonial novel”, this article examines the representation of physiological and psychological malaise in Duras’s novel, which it situates in an Orientalist tradition directly linked to colonialist ideology. Alongside this, it analyses the political nature of this malaise, which arises from the difficulty that the coloniser characters encounter in repressing, through the discourse of culture, the colonial system’s foundational and structural violence, of which the character of the vice-consul appears to be a symbol. Le Vice-consul reflects, in the French context of the s, the European subject’s confrontation with coloniality and its representation.
L’article, en s’interrogeant sur le sens à donner au commentaire de Pierre Dumayet qualifiant Le Vice-consul () de « dernier roman colonial », s’intéresse à la représentation du malaise physiologique et psychologique dans le roman de Duras, qu’il réinscrit dans une tradition orientaliste directement liée à l’idéologie colonialiste. L’article analyse par ailleurs le sens politique de ce malaise, qui découle de la difficulté qu’éprouvent les personnages colonisateurs à réprimer, par le discours de la culture, la violence fondatrice et structurelle du système colonial, dont le personnage du vice-consul apparaît comme un symbole. Le Vice-consul fait ainsi écho, dans le contexte français des années , à la confrontation du sujet européen avec sa colonialité et la représentation qu’il s’en fait.
“Une ville au bord du Gange qui sera ici capitale des Indes et nommée Calcutta :”1 thus Marguerite Duras describes the setting of her novel Le Vice-consul, published in The novel depicts the idleness, vanity, angst and fantasies of a luxurious French colonial society, an insular bubble surrounded by leprous beggars whose poverty provokes its desires and repulsions. This spatial depiction reveals a tension at work in the representation of In
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Exclusive for France 3, Marguerite DURAS, interviewed by Christine OCKRENT, spoke on the Grégory VILLEMIN case. On 17 July , she had published an article in Libération following the indictment of Christine VILLEMIN, where she expressed herself thus "Christine V., the sublime mother, necessarily sublime". - Marguerite DURAS: "This is an exceptional crime, rare [] Very often, the image of the child prevented me from writing. He had become gigantic, terrible. I am still moved by it [] The consequences were endless, they could not be foreseen [] There, it is the pure countryside, with rivers, hills. It is better that we do not know who killed this child."
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Container of (work): Duras, Marguerite. Le monde extérieur. Selections.
Translation of: Duras, Marguerite. Outside. Selections. French.
Translation of: Duras, Marguerite. Le monde extérieur. Selections. French.
Baes, Olivia,
Ramadan, Emma,
Gunn, Daniel,
Cover photo by Louis Monier.
Includes bibliographical references and context (pages ).
Biography
Marguerite Duras was one of the group mainly published by Éditions de Minuit who became known as nouveau roman writers. As a result, till the more conventional L&#;Amant (The Lover) was published in (later made into a successful film), she was not particularly commercially successful, though she had had a long career, both as a writer and film director. Nevertheless, she is considered as one of the most important French writers of the twentieth century.
She was born in in Giandinh, near Saigon as Marguerite Donnadieu. Her parents were teachers in Vietnam. Her father died when she was four, and her mother bought a rice plantation which continually flooded. The theme of how her mother was cheated by the colonial authorities appears in some of her novels. After attending the Lycée de Saigon, she left to go to school in France in She earned a degree in law and political science in Paris and then worked for the Ministry of the Colonies. There she met Robert Antelme, a communist and writer. She was a member of the Resistance during the war, where she got to know François Mitterrand. In , she had a child by Antelme but it died at birth. She then started an affair with Dionys Mascolo, a philosopher and fellow communist. They had a son, Jean. Meanwhile, Antelme had been arrested and was sent to a concentration camp. Mitterrand found him in Dachau and arranged for him to return to Paris. Duras looked after him till he regained his health.
She had started writing during the war. She took the name Duras from the village where her father came from. Her first success &#; a conventional novel &#; was Un barrage contre le Pacifique (The Sea Wall; A Sea of Troubles), an autobiographical novel about her mother&#;s problems with her rice plantation. However, she gradually started writing in the nouveau roman style, with minimum plot and action. Le Square (The Square) was the first of her novels in this style. In , Alain Resnais asked her to write the script for Hiros