MARGUERITE DURAS: FURTHER READING

Bibliography

Harvey, Robert Hèléne Volat. Marguerite Duras: A Bio-Bibliography. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1997, 273 p.

Reference guide to Duras's life and works.

Biographies

Adler, Laure. Marguerite Duras: A Life, translated by Anne-Marie Glasheen. London: Victor Gollancz, 1998, 424 p.

Biography that seeks to circumvent Duras's deliberate attempts to hide the facts associated with certain areas of her life.

Vircondelet, Alain. Duras: A Biography. Translated by Thomas Buckley. Normal, Ill.: Dalkey Archive Press, 1994, 378 p.

Celebrated biography whose author acknowledges the difficulty of accurately capturing the story of Duras's complicated, unconventional life.

Criticism

Baker, Deborah Lesko. "A Rethinking of Genre and Gender through a Reading of Yes peut-être. "In Marguerite Duras Lives On, edited by Janine Ricouart, pp. 11-25. Lanham, Md.: University Press of America, 1998.

Maintains that Duras's text blurs the distinction between prose and poetry and at the same time collapses the distinction between masculine and feminine.

Cismaru, Alfred. Marguerite Duras. New York: Twayne Publishers, 1971. 171 p.

Provides interviews with Duras.

——. Marguerite Duras. New York: Palgrave, 2002. 146 p.

Contains bibliographical section.

Cohen, Susan D. Women and Discourse in the Fiction of Marguerite Duras: Love, Legends, Language. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1993, 239 p.

Employs theories of feminism, Marxism, and postmodernism in an examination of Duras's fiction.

Crowley, Martin. "Writing and Sex." In Duras, Writing, and the Ethical: Making the Broken Whole, pp. 185-232. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2000.

Discussion of Duras's unrelenting questioning of sexual difference and heterosexual relationships in her writing.

Duras, Marguerite Xavière Gauthier. "First Interview." In Woman to Woman, translated by Katharine A. Jensen, pp. 1-32. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1987.

Discussion of Duras's ideas on language and gender issues.

Etienne, Marie-France. "Loss, Abandonment, and Love: The Ego in Exile." In In Language and In Love: Marguerite Duras: The Unspeakable, edited by Mechthild Cranston, pp. 66-88. Potomac, Md.: Scripta Humanistica, 1992.

Examines Duras's treatment of absence and death throughout her work.

Gross, Janice Berkowitz. "Writing Across Purposes: The Theatre of Marguerite Duras and Nathalie Sarraute." Modern Drama 32, no. 1 (March 1989): 39-47.

Examination of the similarities between the dramatic works of Duras and Sarraute.

Günther, Renate. Alienation and Absence in the Novels of Marguerite Duras. Lexington, Ky.: French Forum, 1982, 172 p.

Focuses on Duras's life and career with bibliographical material.

——. "Gender and Sexuality." In Marguerite Duras, pp. 96-133. Manchester, England: Manchester University Press, 2002.

Analyzes Duras's preoccupation with gender issues in her screenplays.

Ha, Marie-Paule. "Durasie: Women, Natives, and Other." In Revisioning Duras: Film, Race, Sex, edited by James S. Williams and Janet Sayers, pp. 95-111. Liverpool, Eng.: Liverpool University Press, 2000.

Contrasts Duras's fictional representations of white women with those of the colonized women of Asia.

Lamont, Rosette C. "The Off-Center Spatiality of Women's Discourse." In Theory and Practice of Feminist Literary Criticism, edited by Gabriela Mora and Karen S. Van Hooft, pp. 138-55. Ypsilanti, Mich.: Bilingual Press, 1982.

Maintains that Duras and Elizabeth Hardwick have attempted in their writing to formulate an "aesthetic of marginality."

Rava, Susan. "Marguerite Duras: Women's Language in Men's Cities." In Women Writers and the City: Essays in Feminist Literary Criticism, edited by Susan Merrill Squier, pp. 35-44. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1984.

Discussion of Duras's urban fiction and her attempts to articulate, through her female characters, a distinctively female voice within a predominantly male discourse.

Schuster, Marilyn R. Marguerite Duras Revisited. New York: Twayne Publishers, 1993, 185 p.

Critical analysis of Duras supplemented with bibliographical section.

Waters, Julia. "'La lutte des sexes est le moteur de l'histoire': Overview and Context." In Intersexual Rivalry: A 'Reading in Pairs' of Marguerite Duras and Alain Robbe-Grillet, pp. 27-51. Bern, Switzerland: Peter Lang, 2000.

Examines the fifty-year professional competition between Duras and Alain Robbe-Grillet, the most prominent member of the Nouveau Roman movement.

Willis, Sharon. "Preliminary Mappings." In Marguerite Duras: Writing on the Body, pp. 11-32. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1987.

Explores Duras's treatment of desire, representation, and gender in her novels, plays and screenplays.

OTHER SOURCES FROM GALE:

Additional coverage of Duras's life and career is contained in the following sources published by the Gale Group: Beacham's Encyclopedia of Popular Fiction: Biography & Resources, Vol. 1; Contemporary Authors, Vols. 25-28R, 151; Contemporary Authors Autobiography Series, Vol. 21; Contemporary Authors New Revision Series, Vol. 50; Contemporary Literary Criticism, Vols. 3, 6, 11, 20, 34, 40, 68, 100; Contemporary World Writers, Ed. 2; Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vol. 83; Encyclopedia of World Literature in the 20th Century, Ed. 3; Guide to French Literature, 1789-Present; The International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers: Writers and Production Artists, Ed. 4; Literature Resource Center; Major 20th-Century Writers; Reference Guide to World Literature, Eds. 2, 3; Short Story Criticism, Vol. 40; and Twayne's World Authors.