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Apr 27, 2024
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FREN 293 - Duras’ Indochina: The Lover 1.5 Credit Hours
Marguerite Duras was raised by a poverty-stricken single mother in Vietnam (French Indochina) and left at the age of 17 to study law and politics at the University of Paris. There, she wrote 70 novels, plays, essays, and screenplays, and became a household name. In this course, we will read Duras’ semi-autobiographical novel L’Amant (1984; The Lover; film, 1992), which won the prestigious Prix Goncourt. We will read Duras’ screenplay to Alain Renais’ Hiroshima, Mon Amour (1959; novel 1960), one of the most influential works of the French New Wave. We will explore the limits of words and film, and examine the protean nature of female desire, the evanescent qualities of memory, and the essence of love and power.
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