Me & Other Writing

Author: Marguerite Duras (translated by Olivia Baes and Emma Ramadan )

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  • : $35.00 AUD
  • : 9781948980029
  • : Dorothy a Publishing Project
  • : Dorothy a Publishing Project
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  • : 227.0
  • : September 2019
  • : 177mm x 140mm x 177mm
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  • : August 2016
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  • : Marguerite Duras (translated by Olivia Baes and Emma Ramadan )
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  • : 1910
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Barcode 9781948980029
9781948980029

Description

A career-spanning collection of Marguerite Duras’s genre-bending essays that Kirkus calls a luminous, erudite exploration of the self and art. In her nonfiction as well as her fiction, Marguerite Duras’s curiosity was endless, her intellect voracious. Within a single essay she might roam from Flaubert to the scattering of desire to the Holocaust; within the body of her essays overall, style is always evolving, subject matter shifting, as her mind pushes beyond the obvious toward ever-original ground. Me & Other Writing is a guidebook to the extraordinary breadth of Duras’s nonfiction. From the stunning one-page Me to the sprawling 70-page Summer 80, there is not a piece in this collection that can be easily categorized. These are essayistic works written for their times but too virtuosic to be relegated to history, works of commentary or recollection or reportage that are also, unmistakably, works of art.