Marguerite Duras

Who was Marguerite Duras? A skilled autobiographical writer, a practitioner of inaccurate confession, that she has donned so many masks and taken such delight in erasing her tracks that it is nearly impossible to tell truth from fiction. This extraordinary biography, which was awarded the Fémina Essay Prize, is the fruit of the friendly relations that Laure Adler had with her for a dozen years, and of patient research, exploring unpublished archives. In it, the author tries to decipher the dark areas of a difficult personality: her relationship with her famous lover at the end of childhood, her complex attitude during the war and the Liberation, her love, literary and political passions. her.