Author: Duras, MargueriteThis volume accompanies an eponymous two-part television documentary aired in 1976 on Marguerite Duras' rhapsodic love for the spaces she has inhabited throughout her life. Her reminiscences are structured around her memories of specific locations. The transcript of the documentary was published in French two years after the documentary aired, and is now published in English for the first time, just shy of 50 years since the film’s creation, alongside photographs and film stills.Her house in Neauphle-le-Château; her childhood home in French Indochina, which inspired her acclaimed novel 'The Sea Wall'; the Hôtel des Roches Noires in Trouville, where she wrote 'The Ravishing of Lol Stein'; and the vast seascapes of Indochina, Bengal and Normandy, whose powerful tides compelled her art and life.True to the original French edition, Duras’ reflections are accompanied by photographs and film stills. The complete English translation by Alison Strayer includes a new essay by writer and director Durga Chew-Bose.Marguerite Duras (1914–96) was a filmmaker and author, and a leading figure in French postwar cinema. Her novel L’Amant won the Prix Goncourt in 1984. She was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for the film Hiroshima mon amour (1959).ISBN 9781738901340. Magic Hour Press. pb. 120 pages. 42 b/w ills. 18.4 x 13.3 cm.available
