Abstract
It is clear that the portion of Duras’s literary work post-1980 not published by Minuit ‘passes’ in very different ways from écriture courante. At the risk of gross over-simplification, it is unhindered by narrative constraints, resists the heterosexual configurations of textual difference, and does not engage with intertextual ‘Great Men’. A brief overview of Duras’s major non-Minuit texts of this period can illustrate the point.
Parlons des choses gaies. ‘Gai’, les pédés nous ont pris ce mot. Ils prennent tout. Et puis c’est un très beau mot, gai, oui, quel beau mot.
(M. Duras)
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Notes to Chapter 5
Michel Tournier, ‘The Faces of Marguerite Duras: The Lover’, Vanity Fair, July 1985, pp. 64–67.
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Williams, J.S. (1997). All Her Sons: Duras, Anti-literature, and the Outside. In: The Erotics of Passage. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-09878-8_5
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