Marguerite Duras

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"Marguerite Duras was one of twentieth-century France's most influential and complex figures - a phenomenally productive and daring writer and filmmaker, a passionate political activist, and a charismatic and infuriating friend and lover. Duras drew constantly on her own experience in her art, often blurring the boundaries between the two. In this researched and involving biography, Laure Adler leads us through Duras's eventful life, sifting fact from fiction by drawing on letters, diaries, and notebooks, as well as many hours of tape-recorded conversations with Duras herself."--Jacket.