Sanford S. Ames Libros

This is the first collection of essays on Marquerite Duras in English. A broad range of scholars and critics explore Duras' mythologies of desire and loss, the fate of love hostage to time and faltering memory. These inspired readings dramatically show how a geography of the imaginary gives way to writing as the conditional suspension of life itself. Duras is widely known if not well understood. Her vital importance to contemporary textual practice and critical theory is established in these studies. To write with Duras is to discover at the edge of consciousness that the strangeness of words exiles human life in language.