In addition to her writing, she also directed about 16 films, including "The Children" and "India Song," which won her France's Cinema Academy Grand Prix. A small, combative woman who fought her way through alcoholism and illness, she was well-known in the Left Bank Latin Quarter. Duras became an enduring part of Paris's intellectual elite. Her 1950 novel "Dam Against the Pacific" is based on her own family's struggles with the seasonal flooding of the Mekong River. Among the more famous ones were "The Kidnapping of Lol V. As a young woman, she worked as a secretary in France's Ministry of Colonies from 1935 to 1941, before becoming a writer. Duras left Indochina to study law in Paris.
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The novel, which was translated into 13 languages, sold more than 2 million copies in France, and the movie became a box office triumph.Īfter high school, Ms. Despite its poverty and marginal status, the girl's family is contemptuous of her wealthy, refined lover because he's Asian. The novel portrays the ugliness of colonialism. Duras had gone to high school in Saigon, and the region inspired several of her novels, including "L'Amant." The book is a moving and sensuous story about a 14-year-old girl from a poor French family in Indochina who becomes the mistress of a wealthy Indochinese notable's son. The family savings of 20 years finally bought a small plot of land in Cambodia, but everything was lost in a single season's flooding. She lost her father, a mathematics teacher, when she was 4. Marguerite Donnadieu - she took the name Duras when she became a writer - was born in what is now southern Vietnam. She received belated critical recognition by winning the Prix Goncourt, France's most prestigious literary prize, for "L'Amant" (The Lover) in 1984, 41 years after her first novel, "Les Impudents," had been an instant success with the public.Īmong her other best-known works was the 1959 screenplay for "Hiroshima Mon Amour." Her novels, sometimes breathless, sometimes repetitive, are not always easily accessible. She earned an Oscar nomination in 1961 for her original screenplay for Alain Resnais’ Hiroshima, Mon Amour.įrance most recently earned an Oscar nomination in the foreign language category in 2015 for Mustang it last won in 1993 with Indochine starring Catherine Deneuve.Marguerite Duras, 81, one of France's most famed and prolific writers who had became best known in recent years for her novel "The Lover" and the film based on it, died March 3 at her home in the Latin Quarter here. But as the months wear on without news of her husband, she must begin the process of confronting the unimaginable.ĭuras’ novel ( The War: A Memoir) was translated and released in more than 20 countries she wrote more than 30 novels in her career and directed 19 films. When Antelme is deported to Dachau by the Gestapo, she becomes friendly with French collaborator Rabier (Benoît Magimel) to gain information at considerable risk to her underground cell.
The plot centers on Duras (Thierry) who is is an active Resistance member along with her husband, writer Robert Antelme, and a band of fellow subversives in Nazi-occupied Paris. Oscars: Italy Selects Paolo Sorrentino's 'The Hand Of God' As International Feature Submission
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