Legends

Abstract

Through techniques which give “primacy to the thing stated the least over stated things”¹ Duras makes us hear silences and words rearticulated in relationship to them. Decentered, dis-placed, re-placed in other configurations, words themselves resonate differently. Dominique Noguez writes that Duras uses words with “full awareness of their value. [. . .] transfigures them, or, rather, gives them their true timber, their entire plenitude, their glory/halo [‘gloire’].”²

“Le récit rituel ou épique est le plus souvent une forme d’expression masculine [...] De même, bien sûr, dans les différentes religions.”

Marina Yaguello

“[...] malgré la tentation, je ne raconterai pas les histoires les plus tragiquement tragiques, qui sont celles des personnes qui n’ont jamais eu la chance de transformer leur fatalité en légende.”

Hélène Cixous