Writing

" Writing, one of Marguerite Duras's last works, is a meditation on the process of writing and on her need for solitude in order to do it. In the five short pieces collected in this volume, she explores experiences that had an emotional impact on her andthat inspired her to write. These vary from the death of a pilot in World War II, to the death of a fly, to an art exhibition. Two of the pieces were made into documentary films, and one was originally a short film. Both autobiographical and fictional, like much of her work, Writing displays Duras's unique worldview and sensitive insight in her simple and poetic prose"--
Of interest to students and scholars of literary criticism as well as modernism, the five short essays gathered in this volume are representative of Duras's sparse visual style of writing. This is a reprint of the original 1998 hardback edition of Polizzotti's lovely, light, and perfectly lucid translation. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Celebrated writer Marguerite Duras on the artistic process