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Identifier	Thesis 1550
Author	Ste-Marie, Lucille
Title	Marguerite Duras : la culpabilite, la douleur et la memoire / Lucille Ste-Marie
Publisher	Central Connecticut State University
Date	1999
Resource Type	Master's Thesis
Notes	The Second World War has profoundly impacted French literature from its onset and continuing to today. The literary work of Marguerite Duras is tied to this period not only through the events of her life during the Occupation of France and her political involvement, but especially through her acute sensibility for the period found in her work. Marguerite Duras published in 1985 forty years after the war, La Douleur, much of which is based on a journal she wrote in 1945. Although she mentions marginally or in brief circumstances of the war in works, e.g., Hiroshima Mon Amour, Auréilia Steiner, dit Aurélia Melbourne, Les yeux vert, Outside and L'Amant, this thesis will examine La Douleur which deals entirely with events occurring during World War II. The thesis is a literary study of the themes of guilt, sorrow and memory as they appear in the text of La Douleur. In this work which raises historical as well as autobiographical evidence, Duras draws from her actual experience of the Second World War. She reawakens intimate circumstances, which are particularly difficult, sensitive and painful. An analysis of this work will reveal the guilt and sorrow felt by Duras and how guilt and sorrow interact with her memory. A stylistic and linguistic approach at this text will establish the correlation of the themes on a literary scale. In order to better understand the war years and Duras' behavior, the study begins with a brief summary of events in France during World War II, followed by a biographical sketch of the unfolding of her life as a child in Indochina up to and including her life as a young married woman starting her writing career during the war years, 1939-1945. An examination of this period as well as the biographical details will attest to the origin and the development of the themes of guilt, sorrow and memory, as they appear in her personal, professional as well as her political life. This study will reveal how the war years represent Marguerite Duras and in turn how she reveals herself in this period. During these years Duras' ambiguous behavior is perceived as controversial and indiscreet. Ascribed as detractions, aspersions, the so-called Durassian problems displayed at this time have remained provocative up to her death in May 1996. These problematic behaviors are her open marriage and many affairs, her friendship with collaborators, her late entry into the Resistance, and her alleged affair with a Gestapo agent. The interpretation of these disconcerting issues will reveal their development and their characteristics in order to conclude that they originate from or are the consequences of the three themes of guilt, sorrow and memory. Each theme will be presented in psychological terms but the study is not based on psychoanalysis. It will concentrate on concrete events both personal and historic that Duras presents in her work. Critics have considered the theme of guilt, of sorrow or of memory individually. This study argues that the three are interactive and because of this interaction, it is impossible to feel the depth of emotion eliciting from La Douleur without examining all three. In this period guilt and pain have wielded a strong emotion and physical force over her life and specifically over her memory, that for many years Duras had avoided writing directly about it.
Subject	France -- History -- German occupation, 1940-1945 -- Fiction Duras, Marguerite. Douleur. English -- Criticism, Textual
Department	Department of Modern Languages
Advisor	Rohinsky, Marie-Claire
Type	Text
Digital Format	application/pdf
Language	eng
OCLC number	42453862
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