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8 unusual facts about Marguerite Duras


Anton Diabelli

A sonatina of Diabelli's, presumably Sonatina in F major, Op. 168, No. 1 (I: Moderato cantabile), provides the title and a motif for the French novella Moderato Cantabile by Marguerite Duras.

Duras, Lot-et-Garonne

The writer Marguerite Donnadieu (1914–1996) took the pseudonym "Marguerite Duras" in 1943, after this village, where her father's house was located.

Françoise Lebrun

She also worked for, amongst others, Paul Vecchiali, Marguerite Duras and Lucas Belvaux, and is the subject of the documentary Françoise Lebrun, les voies singulières (2008).

Jane March

After being spotted on the cover of Just Seventeen by French director Jean-Jacques Annaud, she was chosen to play the female lead in his film The Lover, based on a semi-autobiographical novel by Marguerite Duras.

Sa Đéc

The French writer Marguerite Duras lived in Sa Đéc during a three- to four-year period between 1928 and 1932.

Simon Basinger

He worked with Simone Benmussa on the latest editions of Cahiers Renaud-Barrault, and met Marguerite Duras, Samuel Beckett, Marie-Helene Dasté, Catherine Eckerle, and Madeleine Milhaud.

Solveig Nordlund

She also directed short films and documentaries about writers, such as Marguerite Duras, J.G. Ballard and António Lobo Antunes.

Torbjørn Sletta Jacobsen

In addition to composing music for his quintet, he has made pieces for string quintet and percussion as accompaniment to fairy tales by H. C. Andersen (2005), background music for Marguerite Duras' "The Lover" (2005), and was the main composer and bandleader for the jazz quintet Lobster (2002–08).


Autofiction

Autofiction is principally a genre associated with contemporary French authors, among them: Christine Angot, Marguerite Duras, Guillaume Dustan, Alice Ferney, Annie Ernaux, Hervé Guibert, Olivia Rosenthal, Anne Wiazemsky, and Vassilis Alexakis.

Barbara Bray

She translated the correspondence of Gustave Flaubert, and work by leading French speaking writers of her own time including Marguerite Duras, Amin Maalouf, Julia Kristeva, Michel Quint, Jean Anouilh, Michel Tournier, Jean Genet, Alain Bosquet, Réjean Ducharme and Philippe Sollers.

Leslie Hill

He has written several influential books on French writers and philosophers including Samuel Beckett, Marguerite Duras, Maurice Blanchot, Georges Bataille, Pierre Klossowski and Jacques Derrida.

Linda Catlin Smith

Drawn to an ambiguity of harmony and narrative, her work is informed by her appreciation of the work of writers and painters, including: Marguerite Duras, Cormac McCarthy, Cy Twombly, Giorgio Morandi, Mark Rothko, Agnes Martin, and Joseph Cornell, among many others.

Nathalie Sarraute

Sarraute became, along with Robbe-Grillet, Claude Simon, Marguerite Duras, and Michel Butor, one of the figures most associated with the rise of this new trend in writing, which sought to radically transform traditional narrative models of character and plot.

Palo y hueso

The reviewer went on to detect the influence of filmmakers such as Alain Robbe-Grillet or Marguerite Duras, but felt that the tight psychological characterization, disciplined acting and stark sets were more reminiscent of Kenji Mizoguchi or Satyajit Ray.

Sadi Ranson

Under Ranson-Polizzotti's direction, Lumen Editions published many great authors including the work of Prix Goncourt winner Jean Echenoz, Harry Mathews, Hans Koning, Florence Delay, Marguerite Duras, and others.


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