Maladie de la mort 1986

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“You wouldn't have known her, you'd have seen her everywhere at once, in a hotel, in a street, in a train, in a bar, in a book, in a film, in yourself, your inmost self, when your sex grew erect in the night, seeking somewhere to put itself, somewhere to shed its load of tears.”

Marguerite Duras — nom de plume de Marguerite Donnadieu — est une écrivaine, dramaturge, scénariste et réalisatrice française, née le 4 avril 1914 à Gia Định, près de Saïgon, alors en Indochine française, et morte le 3 mars 1996 à Paris. Par la diversité et la modernité de son œuvre, qui renouvelle le genre romanesque et bouscule les conventions théâtrales et cinématographiques, elle est une figure majeure de la littérature de la seconde moitié du XXe siècle. ---------- Marguerite Duras — pen name of Marguerite Donnadieu — was a French writer, playwright, screenwriter, and director, born on April 4, 1914, in Gia Định, near Saigon, then in French Indochina, and died on March 3, 1996, in Paris