![]() ![]() in love and sexuality) as it breaks down the boundary between private (family) and public (political and artistic) life – between the symbolic and the imaginary, and between the time of narrative and the event recounted. In addition, Duras’s writing explores the space between fusion and separation (e.g. In her extensive oeuvre, Duras particularly explored the emotional disequilibrium brought by love, desire, suffering and death, especially as these affect women and propel them towards the abyss of madness. Surprisingly, Duras supported of the sinking, by the French secret service, of the Greenpeace vessel, The Rainbow Warrior in 1985, her view being at the time that any impediment – which Greenpeace represented – to French nuclear testing in the Pacific only encouraged Soviet expansionism. She was often at the forefront of political movements, such as the opposition to the Algerian War, May ’68 and feminism. After the Second World War she also worked for a number of years as a journalist for France-Observateur. She excelled at being a writer, filmmaker and dramatist. Marguerite Duras (1914–1996) is one of France’s most important and interesting intellectual figures. ![]()
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