Marguerite Duras: Out of Eden or the Betrayal of Indochina

Authors

  • Monica Harsan Transilvania University of Brasov, Romania

Keywords:

violence, betrayal, sensuality, uprooting, memory, oblivion

Abstract

This paper analyses the problems concerning Marguerite Duras's uprooting and frustration complex, generated by her neither French nor Indochinese full nationality. This feeling, which is rather discrete in her novels, becomes very explicit in her interviews, autobiographical writings, and books that other cultural personalities dedicated to her.

Author Biography

Monica Harsan, Transilvania University of Brasov, Romania

Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures

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Published

2009-12-17

Issue

Vol. 2(51)(2009)

Section

LITERARY STUDIES