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Marguerite Duras

Forfatterbiografi

Marguerite Duras (født Marguerite Donnadieu) var en fransk forfatter, dramatiker og film- og essayskribent. Hun blev født 4. april 1914 i Gia Định (i Fransk Indokina, nu Vietnam) og døde 3. marts 1996 i Paris. Hendes forfatterskab bevægede sig mellem roman, teaterstykker, filmmanuskripter og mere eksperimenterende former, og hun er især kendt for en stil, der forener erindring, fragmenter og en stærk, sanselig fortælemåde. I 1984 udgav hun romanen L’amant, der blev en international litterær sensation og blev tildelt Prix Goncourt samme år. Romanen kredser om ungdommens kærlighedserfaring i kolonitidens Indokina og forbindes ofte med autofiktion og stærkt bearbejdet erindringsstof. Gennem både litterære og kunstneriske formgreb fik Duras en varig betydning for den moderne franske litteratur og for forståelsen af, hvordan private livserfaringer kan omsættes til kunstnerisk sprog med både dokumentarisk og mytisk præg.

Bøger af Marguerite Duras

'The Lover'
'The Lover'

Bog | Engelsk

A sensational international bestseller, and winner of Frances' coveted Prix Goncourt, 'The Lover' is an unforgettable portrayal of the incandescent relationship between two lovers, and of the hate that slowly tears the girl's family apart.

'Moderato Cantabile'
'Moderato Cantabile'

Bog | Engelsk

Only UK edition in print A distressed young man murders the woman he loves in a café, watched by a large crowd. Fascinated by the crime she has witnessed, Anne Desbaresdes returns several times to the scene, forming a relationship with a man who also saw

'Yann Andrea Steiner'
'Yann Andrea Steiner'

Bog | Engelsk

Dedicated to Duras' companion with whom she spent her last decade of life, Yann Andr a Steiner is a haunting dance between two parallel stories of love and solitude: the love between Duras and the young Yann Andr a and a seaside romance observed - or

'The Lover'
'The Lover'

Bog | Engelsk

An international best-seller with more than one million copies in print and a winner of France's Prix Goncourt, The Lover has been acclaimed by critics all over the world since its first publication in 1984. Set in the prewar Indochina of Marguerite D

'The Easy Life'
'The Easy Life'

Bog | Engelsk

'One of the 20th century's greatest thinkers and prose stylists' New York Times 'A novel of the disquieting contours of family, and of the mind, and of life unceasing even in the midst of death by one of the most important, visionary write

'Hiroshima Mon Amour'
'Hiroshima Mon Amour'

Bog | Engelsk

Jacket description/back: One of the most influential works in the history of cinema, Alain Renais's Hiroshima Mon Amour gathered international acclaim upon its release in 1959 and was awarded the International Critics' Prize at the Cannes Film fes

'Practicalities'
'Practicalities'

Bog | Engelsk

It's the women who upset the applecart. Between themselves they talk only about the practicalities of life, declares Duras in this collection of her transcribed conversations with friend Jerome Beaujour. Some of her free-ranging meditations are short

'The Malady of Death'
'The Malady of Death'

Bog | Engelsk

A man hires an unnamed woman to stay with him for several weeks in the hope that he will, for the first time in his life, be able to experience love with a woman.

'Elskeren'
'Elskeren'

Bog | Dansk

Med efterord af Lilian Munk Rösing. Elskeren er Marguerite Duras' berømte selvbiografiske roman om en purung fransk piges erotiske forhold til en rig kinesisk forretningsmand i 1920'ernes Indokina. Udkommer iGyldendals Klassikerkollektion - en ny

'At skrive'
'At skrive'

Bog | Dansk

»At skrive var det eneste, der fyldte og fortryllede mit liv. Jeg skrev. Og skrivningen har aldrig siden forladt mig.« I fem essays reflekterer Marguerite Duras over sin skrivekunst og sit levede liv. Værket, der oprindeligt udkom i 1993, tre år før Duras

'The Darkroom'
'The Darkroom'

Bog | Engelsk

THE DARKROOMcontainsthescript for Duras' 1977 radically experimental filmLe camion (The Truck),as well as four manifesto-like propositions in which Duras protests that most movies "beat the imagination to death" because they "are the sa

'Writing'
'Writing'

Bog | Engelsk

Writing, one of Marguerite Duras's last works, is a meditation on the process of writing and on her need for solitude in order to do it. In the five short pieces collected in this volume, she explores experiences that had an emotional impact on her an

'Me & Other Writing'
'Me & Other Writing'

Bog | Engelsk

A career-spanning collection of Marguerite Duras's genre-bending essays that Kirkus calls "a luminous, erudite exploration of the self and art." In her nonfiction as well as her fiction, Marguerite Duras's curiosity was endless, her inte

'The Lover, Wartime Notebooks, Practicalities'
'The Lover, Wartime Notebooks, Practicalities'

Bog | Engelsk

Marguerite Duras was one of the leading intellectuals and novelist of post-war France, but her wartime writings were not published in full until after her death. The Wartime Notebooks trace Duras's formative experiences - including her difficult child

'Lol V. Steins henførelse'
'Lol V. Steins henførelse'

Bog | Dansk

LOL V. STEINS HENFØRELSE er en af Marguerite Duras bedste romaner. En fransk klassiker om trekantsdramaer, erotiske dagdrømme og ubeskrivelig længsel. Hos Duras er forelskelsen både uendelig genkendelig og ekstrem gådefuld, når den unge Lol V. Stein forta

'Outside'
'Outside'

Bog | Dansk

Outside er et udvalg af tekster som oprindeligt blev publiceret i aviser, magasiner, på pladeomslag og i forbindelse med kunstudstillinger. Teksterne kom til i en periode over 30 år og var på mange måder skelsættende journalistik. Artiklerne faldt uden fo

'Smerten'
'Smerten'

Bog | Dansk

En kvinde venter på nyt om sin deporterede mand i efterdønningerne af Frankrigs befrielse. Modstandskvinden Thérèse indleder en relation til gestapoagenten, der har anholdt hendes mand, for at modstandsgruppen kan likvidere ham. Thérèse torterer en stikke

'The North China Lover'
'The North China Lover'

Bog | Engelsk

Far more daring and truthful than any of her other novels, The North China Lover is a fascinating retelling of the dramatic experiences of Duras's adolescence that shaped her most famous work. Initially conceived as notes toward a screenplay for The L

'De små heste i Tarquinia'
'De små heste i Tarquinia'

Bog | Dansk

"De små heste i Tarquinia" af den franske forfatter Marguerite Duras er en udfordrende roman om livet i en syditaliensk landsby, hvor tragedien og begæret ulmer under solens stråler. Sara og sin mand Jacques har lejet et hus i en mindre landsby

The Impudent Ones - Marguerite Duras - Bog
The Impudent Ones - Marguerite Duras - Bog

Generelt skønlitteratur | Engelsk

Marguerite Duras, the Elena Ferrante of French literature, rose to global stardom with her erotic masterpiece The Lover, which won the prestigious Prix Goncourt, has over a million copies in print in English, has been translated into forty-three languages

'The Lover, Wartime Notebooks, Practicalities'
'The Lover, Wartime Notebooks, Practicalities'

Bog | Engelsk

A hardcover omnibus edition of the French writer's most famous novel--the basis for the film Memoir of War --alongside her fascinating wartime writings and a collection of intimate autobiographical essays. Marguerite Duras was one of the leading intel