In the summer of 1973, the journalist Xaviere Gauthier interviewed the writer and filmmaker Marguerite Duras for an article in "Le Monde". The meeting began a productive friendship between the two women that included the recording of four more interviews. They spoke of writing, literature, criticism, film, madness, sex, desire, alienation, Marxism, the situation of women, and their 'oppression by the phallic class'. Published in 1974 in France as "Les Parleuses", the book became a classic statement of a positive and politically forceful feminist stance and an influential exploration of how Western culture has constructed gender roles and dealt with sexuality.Marguerite Duras (1914-96) published forty books, including "L'amant" (The Lover), which won France's most famous literary award, the coveted Goncourt Prize. The film Hiroshima mon amour, made from her script and dialogues, brought her international recognition. Xaviere Gauthier is the author of numerous books of fiction, poetry, biography, and feminist criticism. She is at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in France. Katharine A. Jensen is an associate professor of French at Louisiana State University.

Set against the backdrop of French colonial Vietnam, The Lover reveals the intimacies and intricacies of a clandestine romance between a pubescent girl from a financially strapped French family and an older, wealthy Chinese-Vietnamese man. (from Wikipedia)

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Écrits entre 1943 et 1949, les Cahiers de la guerre de Marguerite Duras ont longtemps été conservés dans les mythiques "armoires bleues" de sa maison de Neauphle-le-Château. Malgré l'appellation inscrite sur l'enveloppe qui les renfermait, le contenu de ces cahiers excède amplement le cadre de la guerre. On y trouve en effet des récits autobiographiques où elle évoque les périodes les plus cruciales de sa vie, particulièrement sa jeunesse en Indochine ; des ébauches de romans en cours, comme Un barrage contre le Pacifique ou Le Marin de Gibraltar ; ou le récit à l'origine de La Douleur, publié en 1985. Dix "autres textes" inédits, contemporains de la rédaction de ces cahiers, complètent cette image d'une oeuvre naissante où se dessine l'architecture primitive de l'imaginaire durassien. À mi-chemin de l'oeuvre assumée et du document d'archive, ces Cahiers de la guerre donnent à voir tout à la fois l'enfance d'une oeuvre et l'affirmation d'un écrivain.

The Malady of Death (French: La Maladie de la mort) is a 1982 novella by the French writer Marguerite Duras. It tells the story of a man who pays a woman to spend several weeks with him by the sea.