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Marguerite Duras A Bio-Bibliography
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Robert Harvey, Hélène Volat
Book Code: GR8898
ISBN: 0-313-28898-4
ISBN-13: 978-0-313-28898-2
296 pages
Greenwood Press
Publication: 3/30/1997
List Price: $110.95 (UK Sterling Price: £65.00)
Availability: Out of stock
Media Type: Hardcover
Trim Size: 6 1/8 X 9 1/4
Subjects:
Series Title: Bio-Bibliographies in World Literature
Series Number: 5
Reviews:
  • Recommended for all college and university libraries.
    —Choice
  • ...provides the most accurate calendar to date of her sixty-three works of fiction, twenty films, twenty-five or so plays and theatrical adaptations, and her spiky, controversial journalism....[They] have also compiled a formidable catalogue of Duras criticism....two
    —The Times Literary Supplement, #5016, 1999
  • The painstaking care and intelligence with which the authors have prepared their bio-bibliography of Duras is a gift to present and future researchers of Duras's literary, filmic, dramatic, and journalistic oeuvre.
    —French Review
  • Endorsement From Leslie Hill
    Department of French Studies
    University of Warwick, UK:     In accurately listing Duras's own extensive writings, media appearances, and interviews in the press, and succinctly summarising the many critical texts that have so far been devoted to her work, Robert Harvey and Hélène Volat have provided readers of Duras, students of contemporary writing, and all those interested in writing by women, with an indispensable work of reference and a much-needed research tool. [This book] is an impressive and imposing record of much painstaking work and deserves to figure in any research collection.
Description: Born in a northern suburb of Saigon in 1914, Marguerite Duras became one of the most prolific and analyzed figures in 20th-century French literature and film. She earned initial fame with her novel, Moderato Cantabile (1958), which sold half a million copies and won the Prix de Mai. At the request of Alain Resnais, she wrote a scenario on the bombing of Hiroshima. Resnais's film, Hiroshima, Mon Amour (1959), became an immediate hit at Cannes, thus earning Duras further fame. But even after these achievements, little was written about her work until the early 1970s. Since then, the situation has reversed, and a trememdous number of critical and scholarly works have been written about her. This volume documents the tremendous critical response to Duras's life and work. The book begins with a short critical biography that discusses some of the major events and themes in her career. A chronology then recounts her life in capsule form. The rest of the book presents annotated entries for works by and about Duras. It includes all works by Duras extant at the time of her death in March 1996, along with secondary sources published by the end of 1994. Works by Duras are grouped in chapters listing her writings, films, print interviews, and broadcast interviews. Works about Duras are grouped in chapters on books, edited collections, journals and journal articles, dissertations, reviews, magazine pieces, and critical editions. Several indexes add to the usefulness of the work.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Biography
  • Introduction--"Marguerite Duras: Writing as Life"
  • Chronology
  • The Works of Marguerite Duras (Primary Sources)
  • Writings: Books and Occasional Pieces
  • Films
  • Printed Interviews
  • Radio and Television Interviews and Appearances
  • Criticism on Marguerite Duras (Secondary Sources)
  • Monographic Studies
  • Collective Works
  • Chapters in Collective Works on Duras and in Other Books
  • Special Issues of Journals
  • Journal Articles
  • Dissertations
  • Book Reviews
  • Miscellaneous Magazine and Newspaper Articles
  • Critical Editions of Works by Marguerite Duras
  • Indices
  • Index to Books and Films by Duras
  • Index to Authors of Criticism
  • Index to Names Referenced
LC Card Number: 96-53093
LCC Class: Z8250
Dewey Class: 016
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