Marguerite Duras: Des journées entières dans les arbres (1968)

Marguerite Duras's Des journées entières dans les arbres is in some respects a re-visitation of the mother and the elder brother seen in Un barrage contre le Pacifique and L'Amant, but at a much later period and set in Paris rather than Indochina.

A very old and somewhat demented woman has taken the plane from the Far East to visit her son for a final time. She believes she's rich although, unbeknown to her, her factory (employing over eighty workers) has recently been taken over by the state and her daughter forced to work as a property agent. Her workshy, avaricious and gambling addict son (in his forties) lives with Marcelle, a younger woman who works in a night club and prostitutes herself to customers. The mother gives her son a bundle of money and Marcelle some money to fetch some food because she's starving – in fact she can't stop eating.

They all go to the night club later and the mother disgraces herself by getting drunk on champagne and then causing a huge fuss over what she considers is an excessively high bill. She returns home with Marcelle while the son stays at the club to squander the money his mother's given him, and his mother takes the plane back home.

My Marguerite Duras posts:
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Marguerite Duras: La Pute de la côte normande
Marguerite Duras: L'Homme assis dans le couloir
Marguerite Duras: Agatha
Marguerite Duras: Emily L.
Marguerite Duras: Les Yeux bleus cheveux noirs
Marguerite Duras: L'Amant | The Lover
Marguerite Duras: Le Ravissement de Lol V. Stein
Marguerite Duras: L'Amante anglaise
Laure Adler: Marguerite Duras
Marguerite Duras: Cimetière du Montparnasse
Marguerite Duras: Un barrage contre le Pacifique
Marguerite Duras: L'Après-midi de Monsieur Andesmas
Marguerite Duras: Les Petits Chevaux de Tarquinia
Marguerite Duras: Le Marin de Gibraltar | The Sailor from Gibraltar
Marguerite Duras: La Douleur | The War: A Memoir
Yann Andréa: Cet amour-là
Marguerite Duras and Xavière Gauthier: Les Parleuses
Marguerite Duras: Savannah Bay
Marguerite Duras: Détruire, dit-elle | Destroy, She Said
Marguerite Duras: L'Amour
Marguerite Duras: Dix heures et demie du soir en été
Marguerite Duras: Le Square | The Square
Marguerite Duras: Les Impudents
Marguerite Duras: Le Shaga
Marguerite Duras: Oui, peut-être
Marguerite Duras: Des journées entières dans les arbres
Marguerite Duras: Suzanna Andler
Marguerite Duras: Le Vice-Consul | The Vice Consul
Marguerite Duras: Moderato cantabile
Marguerite Duras: La Vie matérielle
Marguerite Duras: La Vie tranquille
Marguerite Duras: La Pluie d'été