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Marguerite Donnadieu ( April 4, 1914 - March 3, 1996), better known as Marguerite Duras, was a writer.

She was born in Gia Dinh , Indochina, and went to France, her parents' native country, to study law, but became a writer instead. She changed her name in 1943 for Duras, the name of a village in the Lot-et-Garonne départment, where her father's house was located.

She is the author of a great many novels, plays, films and short narratives, including her best-selling, ostensibly autobiographical work L'Amant ( 1984This page is about the year 1984. For other uses of 1984, see 1984 (disambiguation). 1984 is a leap year starting on Sunday (link shows calendar). Events January January 1 Brunei becomes a fully independent state January 1 AT&T is broken up into 22 indepe), translated into English as The Lover. Following the making of a film of the same name(s) based on her work, Duras then published a slightly different work, L'Amant de la Chine du Nord. Other major works include Moderato Cantabile , also made into a film of the same name, Le Ravissement de Lol V. Stein and her film India Song .

Duras's early novels were fairly conventional in form (their 'romanticism' was criticised by fellow writer Raymond QueneauRaymond Queneau ( February 21, 1903 October 25, 1976) was a French poet and novelist. Life Born in Le Havre, Normandy, Queneau spent much of his life working for French publisher Gallimard. He briefly joined the Surrealists, but found that their approach); however, with Moderato Cantabile she became more experimental, paring down her texts to give ever-increasing importance to what was not said. She was associated with the Nouveau romanNouveau roman refers to certain 1950s French novels that diverged from classical literary genres. Literally translated, the phrase means "new novel. mile Henriot coined the title in an article in the popular French newspaper Le Monde on May 22, 1957 to de French literary movement . Her films are also experimental in form, most eschewing synch sound, using voice over to allude to, rather than tell, a story over images whose relation to what is said may be more-or-less tangential.

She is interred in the Cimetière du MontparnasseThe Cimetiere du Montparnasse is a famous cemetery in the Montparnasse quarter of Paris, France. It is in the 14eme arrondissement. Created from three farms in 1824, the Montparnasse cemetery was originally known as Le Cimetiere du Sud. Cemeteries had bee.

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