Marguerite Duras et l'amour des hommes

The imaginary of Duras about men has crystallized around the three figures that originated in the family saga : the father, the older brother, and the younger brother. The background is dominated by the theme of the incest and the inexpressible proximity with these masculine figures, which it rejects as much as it accepts them. It is perhaps the male otherness that Duras can’t truly express. But this blurring of the frontiers between the masculine and the feminine singularly renews narrative writing.