Laure Adler: Marguerite Duras: A Life Other sitesġ950 Un barrage contre le Pacifique (The Sea Wall) (novel)ġ950 Le Marin de Gibraltar (The Sailor from Gibraltar) (novel)ġ953 Des petits chevaux de Tarquinia (The Little Horses of Tarquinia) (novel)ġ954 Des journées entières dans les arbres (Whole Days in the Trees) (stories)ġ955 Le Square (The Square The Garden Square) (novel)ġ958 Moderato Cantabile (Moderato cantabile) (novel)ġ959 Les viaducs de la Seine et Oise (drama)ġ960 Hiroshima mon amour (Hiroshima, mon amour) (film script)ġ960 Dix heures et demie du soir en été (Ten-Thirty on a Summer Night) (novel)ġ961 Une aussi longue absence (film script)ġ962 L’après-midi de Monsieur Andesmas (The Afternoon of Monsieur Andesmas) (short novel)ġ964 Le Ravissement de Lol V. She suffered from poor health, in part because of her alcoholism. She helped expose the Ben Barka affair and wrote in favour of the 1968 events and feminist issues. However she remained committed to left-wing causes. In 1950, she was expelled, along with other intellectuals, from the Communist Party. Her involvement in the cinema both influenced her narrative writing – she started to use cinematographic techniques in her novel such as jump cuts and dissolves – but also was the beginning of a long involvement in the cinema as a scriptwriter and director. In 1959, Alain Resnais asked her to write the script for Hiroshima, Mon Amour, which became a world-wide success. Le Square (The Square) was the first of her novels in this style. However, she gradually started writing in the nouveau roman style, with minimum plot and action. 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. She took the name Duras from the village where her father came from. Duras looked after him till he regained his health. Mitterrand found him in Dachau and arranged for him to return to Paris. Meanwhile, Antelme had been arrested and was sent to a concentration camp. She then started an affair with Dionys Mascolo, a philosopher and fellow communist. In 1942, she had a child by Antelme but it died at birth. She was a member of the Resistance during the war, where she got to know François Mitterrand. There she met Robert Antelme, a communist and writer. She earned a degree in law and political science in Paris and then worked for the Ministry of the Colonies. After attending the Lycée de Saigon, she left to go to school in France in 1932. The theme of how her mother was cheated by the colonial authorities appears in some of her novels. Her father died when she was four, and her mother bought a rice plantation which continually flooded. She was born in 1914 in Giandinh, near Saigon as Marguerite Donnadieu. Nevertheless, she is considered as one of the most important French writers of the twentieth century. As a result, till the more conventional L’Amant (The Lover) was published in 1984 (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. Marguerite Duras was one of the group mainly published by Éditions de Minuit who became known as nouveau roman writers.
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