I believe that always, or almost always, in all childhood and in all the lives that follow them, the mother represents madness. Because then he becomes one of the children. You might ask me, What if a man tries to be part of the home-will the woman let him? I answer yes. That’s where she used to be, and that’s where she still is.
No other human being, no woman, no poem or music, book or painting can replace alcohol in its power to give man the illusion of real creation.
The only difference is that some of them remind you of it as soon as you meet them, and others wait for a little while.
#THE LOVER DURAS QUOTES DRIVERS#
On the contrary, it encourages him in his folly, it transports him to the supreme regions where he is master of his own destiny.īefore they’re plumbers or writers or taxi drivers or unemployed or journalists, before everything else, men are men. Whether you’re a man or a woman, the fascination resides in finding out that we’re alike.Īlcohol doesn’t console, it doesn’t fill up anyone’s psychological gaps, all it replaces is the lack of God. The thing that’s between us is fascination, and the fascination resides in our being alike. To love a no-good but humble punk and to love an honest man who believes himself to be an honest man-somewhere these, too, come together.
To love one child and to love all children, whether living or dead-somewhere these two loves come together. It’s only women who are not really quite women at all, frivolous women who have no idea, who neglect repairs. It’s afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn’t necessarily prove that you loved him. The words a man speaks in the night of drunkenness fade like the darkness itself at the coming of day. She can’t help it-can’t help trying to interest her nearest and dearest not in happiness itself but in the search for it.Ī house means a family house, a place specially meant for putting children and men in so as to restrict their waywardness and distract them from the longing for adventure and escape they’ve had since time began.Īlcohol is barren. She represents the un-vowed aspiration of the male human being, his potential infidelity-and infidelity of a very special kind, which would lead him to the opposite of his wife, to the “woman of wax” whom he could model at will, make and unmake in any way he wished, even unto death. Schuster’s Marguerite Duras Revisited (1993) and Leslie Hill’s Marguerite Duras: Apocalyptic Desires (1993.) Notable biographies of Duras include Marilyn R. Her final novel was C’est tout (1995 No More, 2000.) In her later life, she survived two years in a coma and continued to write. Her novels include Un barrage contre le Pacifique (1950 The Sea Wall, 1952,) Le Marin de Gibraltar (1952 The Sailor from Gibraltar, 1966,) Le Vice-Consul (1966 The Vice-Consul, 1968,) Détruire, dit-elle (1969 Destroy, She Said, 1970) and the semi-autobiographical La Douleur (1985 The War, 1986.)ĭuras also wrote film scripts such as Hiroshima mon amour (1960, ‘Hiroshima My Love’) and India Song (1976,) and several plays, including La Musica (1965 The Music, 1966.) She also directed numerous films, including Détruire dit elle (1961 Destroy She Said) and the experimental Agatha (1981.)ĭumas struggled with alcoholism for much of her life. She kept the affair secret for the next fifty years but later evoked the experience in her Prix Goncourt prize-winning L’Amant (1984 The Lover, 1985.) It is praised for its lyricism and the raw emotion of the violence and poverty of Duras’s childhood.ĭuras studied law and political science at the Sorbonne in Paris, and, during World War II, took part in the Resistance at great risk to herself as a Jewess. It was purportedly encouraged by her family for financial reasons. When she was seven, her father died of dysentery, leaving the family in financial hardship.Īt school, Duras had a brief and intense ill-conceived love affair with an older Chinese man whom she met on a ferryboat. Her work crosses traditional boundaries of fiction and autobiography.īorn in Gia-Dinh, near Saigon, French Indochina, Duras was the daughter of French parents, both of whom were teachers. She is considered one of the most successful and important French literary figures of the 20th century. Marguérite Duras (1914–96,) pseudonym of Marguérite Donnadieu, was a French novelist, scriptwriter, and filmmaker.
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