notebooks and other texts 
of Marguerite Duras (Feltrinelli)
was on the ferry from Sadec to know I met Leo for the first time. Returning to the board of Saigon and someone, do not remember who, gave me a ride in his car along with Leo. Leo was dressed but the French native, fluent in French and came from Paris. I had fifteen years, I had been in France just as a child and found that Leo was very elegant. He had a large diamond on her finger and that was in full bore tussore raw silk. Established in 1914, Marguerite Duras
lived in Vietnam for up to eighteen, and France played in the resistance during World War II. Great storyteller, his literary work is mainly autobiographical background, and recalls, especially the experiences of life in the Far East and the war years, political activism and militancy of the anti-fascist. Her writing, though crisp and realistic enough to make every detail with extreme accuracy, it transmits a strong emotional and intense, constant sensuality. Marguerite Duras was also a screenwriter and director. The Notebooks of
war are the most amazing part of the archives of the great French writer. A long held in the famous blue
cabinets of the house of Neauphle-le-Château, their legendary existence was not entirely sure, are no doubt a testimony to his work and his narrative technique, as well as an important autobiographical document.
With its fine writing, the writer has filled four notebooks with notes, stories, notes, impressions, creating not just a diary (on the contrary, there is nothing in these diary-like texts), but the real project those who later become his greatest literary works. In the stories of adolescence spent the atmosphere in the east shines strong, aggressive and somewhat ambiguous de
The lover of northern China, where the figure of the protagonist takes on a charm is almost unequivocal in their solitary behavior and unconventional, both in relation to Leo
, from which it is attracted only by virtue of his wealth, both in complex relationship with his mother and siblings, where the violence is not illegal, but absurdly obvious.
It is perhaps a result of that violence, in Quaderni
, the militant
Theodora (whose name will change into
Therese publication), as to do justice to itself, rages sadism in women with a rare public examination of a spy of the Gestapo, convinced he has finally found himself in the evil of which he had always been conscious.
The strength of the writing of Marguerite Duras is to narrate and describe situations in which the intricate psychological mechanism sometimes verges on a slim and stylish perversion with extreme ease, so much to play down the darker aspects, while keeping intact the power of ' emotion. This capability is particularly clear in the pages outlining what will be, in my opinion, one of the masterpieces of the writer, the novel and short autobiographical
pain, in which she, with a succession of hallucinatory visions and everyday lives and the unbearable anguish of the stifling husband Robert Antelme
return from Dachau.
The tightness of this expectation has no hope is strong, the images of death evoked by the ego narrator appear raw and frightening.
So all you can know when you do not know anything , she writes, and her not knowing materializes in the horrific images revealed during the liberation of death camps: it was the huge, full of bodies reduced to skeletons and burned, where perhaps, at the same moment in which she lives, writes and thinks, he lay motionless, while the life is leaving him.
This harrowing thought of her man dead and forgotten among the millions of dead and forgotten the strange relationship that seems to balance the writer while living with
D. , which then, in the story finished, he would declare that he wanted a son. Anonymous and present at the same time, D. Marguerite attends more than a friend and "companion" politician husband by her lover, taking part in the grueling days of waiting for the train, and then the slow miracle of the rebirth of Robert Antelme finally back yes, I live, but a life reduced to a thin and fragile thread.
A prelude of this
Notebooks the war, the work of one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century.
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