it was during that same decade that she joined the french communist party, the PCF. no wonder the main theme of the novel to which i alluded at the start ('abahn sabana david') is the art of refusal & the freedom of a defiant 'NO!'
#novel #illustration #abahnSabanaDavid #france #margueriteDuras #literature #botd
duras was a master of written dialogue, crafting it in such a way that the space between her words informed the story as much as or more than what she spelled out. as a human being, she was remarkable: during WWII, she worked for the vichy government whilst simultaneously belonging to an active french resistance cell.
#margueriteDuras #frenchResistance #art #sketch #author
#art #history: imagine being such a gifted author that one of your most radical & inventive novels was mainly a product of automatic writing? best known, perhaps, for providing the screenplay that would become alain resnais' 'hiroshima mon amour' - which is not a bad place to start if you've not yet become acquainted with marguerite duras (born #otd in 1914) - she largely escaped acclaim outside of france. this is regrettable. (threadish)
#margueriteDuras #literature #illustration #france
In the documentary Delphine Seyrig, portrait d'une comète (2000), Lonsdale tells a very poignant anecdote related to Delphine Seyrig: the actress had once made him a gift of a succulent plant that grew flowers about every two years. He claims that it kept flourishing for about 15 years, but never again after Delphine's death.
#cinema #michaellonsdale #delphineseyrig #indiasong #margueriteduras
“When it's in a book I don't think it'll hurt any more ... exist any more. One of the things writing does is wipe things out. Replace them.”
― Marguerite Duras, "The Lover"
“The solitude of writing is a solitude without which writing could not be produced, or would crumble, drained bloodless by the search for something else to write.”
― Marguerite Duras, "Writing"
It's her 110th #birthday today (4/4/1914–3/3/1996)! 
Wondering if I’ve stumbled on a new micro genre of literary fiction called woman-has-existential-crisis-in-a-hotel-room. I’ve now finished and loved two books that fit this category - The Easy Life by #MargueriteDuras, and The Baudelaire Fractal by #LisaRobertson. If anyone has others, hmu! #bookstodon
