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Marguerite Duras A Bio-Bibliography

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By Robert Harvey and Hélène Volat

ISBN: 0-313-28898-4

ISBN-13: 978-0-313-28898-2

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296 pages

Greenwood Press

Publication: 3/30/1997

List Price: $110.95 (UK Sterling Price: £65.00)

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Media Type: Hardcover

Trim Size: 6 1/8 X 9 1/4

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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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