Dr Tony Shaw

Les Roches Noires was formerly a hotel, but Marguerite Duras (1914-96) bought an apartment here in 1963. Several of her novels mention the ...

This book is mainly the screenplay of the Alain Resnais's film Hiroshima mon amour , which is essentially the same as the film. However,...

Alain Resnais and scriptwriter Marguerite Duras both agreed that it was impossible to make a film about Hiroshima, and this is the result. E...

I've already written about Marguerite Duras's novel L'Amant (1984) – of which this is an adaptation by a French director but in...

This copy of Marguerite Duras's La Pluie d'été  was very kindly given to me by the artist Danielle Jacqui when we visited her...

'[D]es journées entières dans les arbres', says this shop, which must be among the very few to have named itself after a modern p...

Although highly rated both critically and popularly, the film The Sound of Music (1965) was an unspeakably tacky film of the mid-1960s ...

La Vie matérielle is a collection of 47 texts of very differing lengths, almost all of which are taken from what Marguerite Duras said ...

Marguerite Duras's second novel, published in 1944 and revised in 1972, so – unike Les Impudents a few years earlier – accepted by ...

Les Impudents is Marguerite Duras's first novel, one she came to see as 'very bad' and went to the extent of deleting it fr...

Le Shaga  is another of Marguerite Duras's rare humorous writings, and again it's distinctly Beckettian, reducing language here ...

Yes, peut-être  is one of only three works of Marguerite Duras's which are humorous, the other two being  Eaux et Forêts and Le Sha...

Marguerite Duras's Des journées entières dans les arbres  is in some respects a re-visitation of the mother and the elder brother se...

Suzanna Andler  has very few characters: the eponymous protagonist (about forty); her present lover Michel Cayre (thirty or thirty-five ...

This is the second of Marguerite Duras's cycle indien , which consists of four novels:  Le Ravissement de Lol V. Stein (1964), Le ...