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The Places of Marguerite Duras

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Availability:In StockContributor:Marguerite Duras (Artist), Jordan Weitzman (Editor), Durga Chew-Bose (Introduction by)Publish date:2025-05-27Pages:120
Language:EnglishPublisher:Magic Hour PressISBN-13:9781738901340ISBN-10:1738901343UPC:9781738901340Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, Art, Performing ArtsBook Subcategory:Literary Figures, Individual Artists, FilmBook Topic:Essays, History & CriticismSize:7.10 x 5.50 x 0.50 inchesWeight:0.3505Product ID:SCPXT24S37

The first English translation of an important and evocative interview-turned-book project in Marguerite Duras' illustrious oeuvre

"I could talk for hours about this house, this garden. I know it all, I know where every old door is, everything, the walls of the pond, all the plants, the location of every plant, even the wild plants I know the place of, everything." So begins Marguerite Duras' rhapsody on the spaces she has inhabited throughout her life. The Places of Marguerite Duras was filmed and aired as a two-part television documentary in 1976. Her reminiscences are structured around her memories of specific locations: her house in Neauphle-le-Ch?teau; her childhood home in French Indochina, which inspired her acclaimed novel The Sea Wall; the H?tel des Roches Noires in Trouville, where she wrote The Ravishing of Lol Stein; and the vast seascapes of Indochina, Bengal and Normandy, whose powerful tides compelled her art and life.
The transcript of the documentary was published in French two years after the documentary aired, and is now published in English for the first time, just shy of 50 years since the film's creation. True to the original French edition, Duras' reflections are accompanied by photographs and film stills. The complete English translation by Alison Strayer includes a new essay by writer and director Durga Chew-Bose.
Marguerite Duras (1914-96) was a filmmaker and author, and a leading figure in French postwar cinema. Her novel L'Amant won the Prix Goncourt in 1984. She was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for the film Hiroshima mon amour (1959).


Language:EnglishPublisher:Magic Hour PressISBN-13:9781738901340ISBN-10:1738901343UPC:9781738901340Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, Art, Performing ArtsBook Subcategory:Literary Figures, Individual Artists, FilmBook Topic:Essays, History & CriticismSize:7.10 x 5.50 x 0.50 inchesWeight:0.3505Product ID:SCPXT24S37
Publisher: Magic Hour Press

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