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Marguerite Duras. Ecrire. paris. Gallimard (Schoenhof, distr.). 1993. 147 pages. 78 F.
With the encroaching years, Marguerite Duras--now an octogenarian--continues to grind out films, plays, novels, and stories at a fevered pace. Since the appearance of Les impudents half a century ago, her prodigious output shows no signs of abating. Like Nathalie Sarraute, fourteen years her senior, Duras writes as though her life depended on it. Perhaps it does.
In Ecrire, like Sarraute in Entre la vie et la mort, Duras addresses the dilemma of the writing process, but in a more seditious and autobiographical vein. For her, solitude--the sine qua non of writing--is bound up with Neauphlele-Chateau, the house she purchased with royalties from the film version of Un barrage contre le Pacifique. While relishing...