Me & Other Writing [Soft Cover ]

Literary Nonfiction. Fiction. Essay. Film. Literary Criticism. Translated by Olivia Baes and Emma Ramadan. Introduction by Dan Gunn. 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.Table of Contents:CONTENTSIntroduction viiPublisher's Note xviiFlaubert Is . . . 1The Sound and the Silence 13My Mother Had . . . 19Atlantic Black 30Letter to Centre Rachi 35Translation 37I Thought Often . . . 39Horror at Choisy-le-Roi 48Nadine from Orange 57Reading on the Train 67True Appearances 78The Men of Tomorrow 82The Right, Our Death 88The Horror of Such a Love 90Me 93Summer 80 95Notes & Context 173Translators' Afterword 181Biographical Notes 187