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Marguerite Duras, Richard Howard, Christiane Blot-Labarrere , Paul Otchakovsky-Laurens

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Seven Stories Press,U.S.
25 April 2023

Biography: literary

In her last book, Marguerite Duras meditates with a fierce poetic fervor on facing death, her life's literary work, and love.

In her last book, Marguerite Duras meditates with a fierce poetic fervor on facing death, her life's literary work, and love.

Sex, and death. All of Marguerite Duras's writings are suffused with the certitude that absolute love is both necessary (sex) and impossible to achieve (death). But no book of hers embodies this idea so powerfully, so excessively, as No More (C'est Tout), the book she composed during the last year of her life until just days before her death.

No More (C'est Tout) is literature shorn of all its niceties, a shout from the depths of Duras's being, celebrating life in defiance of the death she knew had already entered her immediate future. In part, it is also Duras' raucous salutation welcoming death. No More is a collection as pure as poetry and her words and ideas recirculate in hypnotic fits of lucidity, desperation, and noise, but the overall effect is both unsettling and, at times, piercingly true.

By: Marguerite Duras
Preface by: Paul Otchakovsky-Laurens
Afterword by: Christiane Blot-Labarrere
Translated by: Richard Howard
Imprint: Seven Stories Press,U.S.
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 209mm, Width: 140mm,
Weight: 369g
ISBN: 9781644212394
ISBN 10: 1644212390
Pages: 208
Publication Date: 25 April 2023
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

MARGUERITE DURAS is one of the towering figures in 20th century French literature. Author of of over 73 books, mostly novels (including The Vice-Consul, The English Lover, The North China Lover, and the bestselling The Lover), but also original screenplays such as India Song and Hiroshima Mon Amour, which won the International Critics Prize at the Cannes Film Festival and the New York Film Critics Award, and memoirs including The War. About Marguerite Duras Germaine Bree has written, ""Love, the fierceness of love, the happiness, the pain, the compelling and destructive power of love is Marguerite Duras's essential theme.

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