Guide Note:
French novelist, screenwriter, playwright and film director Marguerite Duras often reworked her material in different forms, blurring boundaries between novels, plays, and films. The themes that permeate her work are sexual desire, love, memories, and death. Her mature prose style is minimalist, sparse, yet highly suggestive.
Fast Facts:
- Born on April 4, 1914 in French Indochina
- Died on March 3, 1996 in Paris, France
- Real name: Marguerite Donnadieu
- Most autobiographical novel: The Sea Wall
- Most popular novel: The Lover
- Most popular film: Hiroshima mon Amour
- Often based her stories on short, sensationalist news items
- Directed in several films, and acted in some
- Quotation: "The best way to fill time is to waste it."