Duras, Writing, and the Ethical: Making the Broken Whole

by Martin Crowley

Overview

This book offers a study of the whole of Duras's written oeuvre, covering journalism and lesser-known works as well as more famous texts. It brings out the constant presence of ethical questions in and around the experiences of passion and excess with which her work is always concerned, and subjects Duras's texts to an unprecedented level of close reading, carrying her beyond the terms of her usual reception.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780198160137
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	01/11/2001
Series:	Oxford Modern Languages and Literature Monographs
Pages:	340
Product dimensions:	8.50(w) x 5.50(h) x 0.88(d)

About the Author

University of Cambridge

Table of Contents

IntroductionI. Impossible Enactment1. The Writing of the Beyond2. The Temporalilty of the Event3. The Politics of IncomprehensionInterludeII. Confident Uncertainties4. Writing and Historical Trauma5. Writing and Sex6. Writing and the SelfConclusionBibliographyIndex

Editorial Reviews

"[Crowley] argues convincingly that Duras's work forces readers to confront the ethical questions with which it is nonetheless suffused.... This nuanced, serious, and philosophically informed study is a major departure and broadening of the field.... The most significant and thorough piece of Duras scholarship since Leslie Hill's Marguerite Duras: Apocalyptic Desires (1993), this is an essential addition to all libraries supporting work at the upper-division undergraduate level and above."—Choice

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