marguerite durasjessicahallockApril 12 2007, 19:50:32 UTC
on the nobel prize:
'No, no. Who'd deserve that prize is Nathalie Sarraute, not I. I fought in the French Resistance, I belonged to the Communist Party, I've done things like that all my life. I've been arrested by the police, I've been accused of conspiring against the State, I've been an alcoholic, who knows how many more things like that. I've always been a free person, very free, I've chosen the sort of life that doesn't go with those big prizes, with fine medals. No.'
Re: marguerite durasjessicahallockDecember 1 2009, 23:14:09 UTC
in practicalities:
71 // You get yourself into that sort of situation, without thinking, and there you are. I can't see even a couple of days ahead in my life. Either with this man or without him - it's the same as in quite different affairs from ours. It's true - to confirm what I said to Veinstein - it's not a question of suffering. It's a ratification of an original despair, dating you might almost say from childhood, as if all of a sudden you experienced the same sense of impossibility as you felt when you were eight years old. A sense of impossibility when you looked at things, people, the sea, life, the limited nature of your own body; or the trees in the forest, which you couldn't get to without risking death; or the sailing of liners, which seemed to be going away for ever and ever; or my mother, mourning my dead father with a grief we knew to be childish but which might take her away from us.
75 // All around the hand was the noise of the train. All around the train, the darkness. The silence of the corridors within the
( ... )
Fyodor Dostoevsky The Brothers Karamazov (1990) Crime and Punishment (1992) Notes from Underground (1993) Demons (1994) The Eternal Husband and Other Stories (1997) The Idiot (2002) [rp/lv] The Adolescent (2003) The Double (2005) The Gambler (2005)
Mikhail Bulgakov The Master and Margarita (1997) [rp/lv]
Nikolai Gogol The Collected Tales (1998) [rp/lv] Dead Souls (1996) [rp/lv]
Leo Tolstoy Anna Karenina (2000) War and Peace (October 16, 2007)
Anton Chekhov Stories of Anton Chekhov (2000) The Complete Short Novels (2000) [rp/lv]
Alexandre Dumas, père The Three Musketeers (2006)
There was, in one eye, an odd gleaming streak that would turn to a black line when the life left her body, like a light going out behind the crack in a door. louise erdrich, the master butchers singing club.
Fyodor Dostoevsky The Brothers Karamazov (1990) Crime and Punishment (1992) Notes from Underground (1993) Demons (1994) The Eternal Husband and Other Stories (1997) The Idiot (2002) [rp/lv] The Adolescent (2003) The Double (2005) The Gambler (2005)
Mikhail Bulgakov The Master and Margarita (1997) [rp/lv]
Nikolai Gogol The Collected Tales (1998) [rp/lv] Dead Souls (1996) [rp/lv]
Leo Tolstoy Anna Karenina (2000) War and Peace (October 16, 2007) (begun)
Anton Chekhov Stories of Anton Chekhov (2000) The Complete Short Novels (2000) [rp/lv]
I think that the way you arrive at the forms, and particularly the way you make them requires so much belief - belief in the materials, belief in the surfaces, trusting that these physical qualities can have enough resonance to carry the work
( ... )
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'No, no. Who'd deserve that prize is Nathalie Sarraute, not I. I fought in the French Resistance, I belonged to the Communist Party, I've done things like that all my life. I've been arrested by the police, I've been accused of conspiring against the State, I've been an alcoholic, who knows how many more things like that. I've always been a free person, very free, I've chosen the sort of life that doesn't go with those big prizes, with fine medals. No.'
interview with ana maria moix in two by duras.
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71 // You get yourself into that sort of situation, without thinking, and there you are. I can't see even a couple of days ahead in my life. Either with this man or without him - it's the same as in quite different affairs from ours. It's true - to confirm what I said to Veinstein - it's not a question of suffering. It's a ratification of an original despair, dating you might almost say from childhood, as if all of a sudden you experienced the same sense of impossibility as you felt when you were eight years old. A sense of impossibility when you looked at things, people, the sea, life, the limited nature of your own body; or the trees in the forest, which you couldn't get to without risking death; or the sailing of liners, which seemed to be going away for ever and ever; or my mother, mourning my dead father with a grief we knew to be childish but which might take her away from us.
75 // All around the hand was the noise of the train. All around the train, the darkness. The silence of the corridors within the ( ... )
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The Brothers Karamazov (1990)
Crime and Punishment (1992)
Notes from Underground (1993)
Demons (1994)
The Eternal Husband and Other Stories (1997)
The Idiot (2002) [rp/lv]
The Adolescent (2003)
The Double (2005)
The Gambler (2005)
Mikhail Bulgakov
The Master and Margarita (1997) [rp/lv]
Nikolai Gogol
The Collected Tales (1998) [rp/lv]
Dead Souls (1996) [rp/lv]
Leo Tolstoy
Anna Karenina (2000)
War and Peace (October 16, 2007)
Anton Chekhov
Stories of Anton Chekhov (2000)
The Complete Short Novels (2000) [rp/lv]
Alexandre Dumas, père
The Three Musketeers (2006)
There was, in one eye, an odd gleaming streak that would turn to a black line when the life left her body, like a light going out behind the crack in a door. louise erdrich, the master butchers singing club.
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The Brothers Karamazov (1990)
Crime and Punishment (1992)
Notes from Underground (1993)
Demons (1994)
The Eternal Husband and Other Stories (1997)
The Idiot (2002) [rp/lv]
The Adolescent (2003)
The Double (2005)
The Gambler (2005)
Mikhail Bulgakov
The Master and Margarita (1997) [rp/lv]
Nikolai Gogol
The Collected Tales (1998) [rp/lv]
Dead Souls (1996) [rp/lv]
Leo Tolstoy
Anna Karenina (2000)
War and Peace (October 16, 2007) (begun)
Anton Chekhov
Stories of Anton Chekhov (2000)
The Complete Short Novels (2000) [rp/lv]
Alexandre Dumas, père
The Three Musketeers (2006)
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m loncar's "repeating the word girl"
i couldn't remember anything / except // are you sure i'm not going to hurt anybody?
+ "the king of refrigerator poems"
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