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Les barrages de la mère dans la plaine, c'était le grand malheur et la grande rigolade à la fois, ça dépendait des jours. C'était la grande rigolade du grand malheur. C'était terrible et c'était marrant. Ça dépendait de quel côté on se plaçait, du côté de la mer qui les avait fichus en l'air, ces barrages, d'un seul coup d'un seul, du côté des crabes qui en avaient fait des passoires, ou au contraire, du côté de ceux qui avaient mis six mois à les construire dans l'oubli total des méfaits pourtant certains de la mer et des crabes. Ce qui était étonnant c'était qu'ils avaient été deux cents à oublier ça en se mettant au travail.»
- Sales Rank: #1354500 in Books
- Brand: Brand: Editions Gallimard
- Published on: 1978-01-01
- Original language: French
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 6.90" h x 1.10" w x 4.20" l,
- Binding: Mass Market Paperback
- 364 pages
- Used Book in Good Condition
About the Author
Marguerite Donnadieu, better known as Marguerite Duras (4 April 1914 - 3 March 1996) was a French writer and film director. She was born at Gia-Dinh, near Saigon, French Indochina (now Vietnam), after her parents responded to a campaign by the French government encouraging people to work in the colony. Marguerite's father fell ill soon after their arrival, and returned to France, where he died. After his death, her mother, a teacher, remained in Indochina with her three children. The family lived in relative poverty after her mother made a bad investment in an isolated property and area of farmland in Cambodia. The difficult life that the family experienced during this period was highly influential on Marguerite's later work. An affair between the teenaged Marguerite and a Chinese man was to be treated several times (described in quite contrasting ways) in her subseqent memoirs and fiction. She also reported being beaten by both her mother and her older brother during this period. At 17, Marguerite went to France, her parents' native country, where she began studying for a degree in law. This she soon abandoned to concentrate on political sciences, and then law. After completing her studies, she became an active member of the PCF (the French Communist Party). In the late 1930s she worked for the French government office representing the colony of Indochina. During the war, from 1942 to 1944, she worked for the Vichy government in an office that allocated paper to publishers (in the process operating a de facto book censorship system), but she was also a member of the French Resistance. Her husband Robert Anthelme was deported to Bergen-Belsen for his involvement in the Resistance, and barely survived the experience (weighing on his release, according to Marguerite, just 84 lbs). In 1943 she changed her surname for Duras, the name of a village in the Lot-et-Garonne d partement, where her father's house was located. She is the author of a great many novels, plays, films, interviews and short narratives, including her best-selling, apparently autobiographical work L'Amant (1984), translated into English as The Lover. This text won the Goncourt prize in 1984. The story of her adolescence also appears in three other forms: The Sea Wall, Eden Cinema and The North China Lover. A film version of The Lover, produced by Claude Berri, was released to great success in 1992. Other major works include Moderato Cantabile, also made into a film of the same name, Le Ravissement de Lol V. Stein, and her film India Song. She was also the screenwriter of the 1959 French film Hiroshima mon amour, which was directed by Alain Resnais. Duras's early novels were fairly conventional in form (their 'romanticism' was criticised by fellow writer Raymond Queneau); however, with Moderato Cantabile she became more experimental, paring down her texts to give ever-increasing importance to what was not said. She was associated with the Nouveau roman French literary movement, although did not definitively belong to any group. Her films are also experimental in form, most eschewing synch sound, using voice over to allude to, rather than tell, a story over images whose relation to what is said may be more-or-less tangential. Marguerite's adult life was somewhat difficult, despite her success as a writer, and she was known for her periods of alcoholism. She died in Paris, aged 81 from throat cancer and is interred in the Cimeti re du Montparnasse. Her tomb is marked simply 'MD'.
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Cochinchina...
By John P. Jones III
Marguerite Duras was born in the French colony of Cochinchina, now present day Vietnam, on the eve of World War I. Cochinchina was the southernmost portion present-day Vietnam. The French called the other two regions, Tonkin, which is in the north, bordering China, and Annam, the long, narrow, sinusoidal coastal region that connected the two "rice-baskets" of Vietnam, the fertile regions of the Red and Mekong deltas. My first introduction to her work was when I saw her movie Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959), which concerns two individuals, one French, one Japanese, damaged by World War II; the movie is not related to Vietnam. I've read two other of her books, in English: The Lover and The North China Lover. Both are reported to be largely autobiographical, both set in the Mekong delta, at the end of the 1920's, early 1930's, and both involve a young girl's (age 15) coming of age, when she "looks life in the face," and straightforwardly decides to be "deflowered", to use that quaint term, by a rich Chinese ne'er-do-well, almost twice her age. The latter work discussed in a bit more detail how her mother was "down on her luck," living a largely impoverished life, as a result of being swindled out of her small inheritance (her husband had died) in land-dealings with French cadre. She said this book explained that period in much greater detail, and so I decided to read it, this time in French, although there is a version in translation The Sea Wall.
This work is also largely autobiographical, but the young woman (age 17-18), Suzanne, is quite a bit different than the one depicted in the two "Lovers". So is the brother, but the mother seems to be largely constant. And just when I wanted to criticize her for this, I remembered that this is a novel, and in good literature, the various possibilities of life, particularly for a young woman, can be examined, including "the paths not taken." And Duras does an excellent job of positing a different scenario.
The core of the novel involves her mother's unsuccessful attempts to "hold back the sea" by building barriers (dams) in the Mekong delta so that the fertile land can be tilled. Regrettably, the barriers (dams) are not strong enough, and break every year, destroying the crops with brackish water. This leads to financial ruin and enormous stress on the family. Duras does an excellent job of depicting the courtships (and lovers) of both Suzanne, as well as her brother Joseph, against a background of a seriously neurotic (cinglée) mother. Financial considerations play into both courtships. With considerable justification, the mother is depicted demonstrating a real hatred for the French officials responsible for land distribution.
Duras also does an excellent job of describing life in general in this French colony. For example, there is the area of Saigon where all the rich colonists live, the streets are watered frequently to hold down the dust, and the trams are routed around (the trams themselves are all hand-me-downs from Metropolitan France.) Suzanne promenades in her finery, and escapes to the cinema, the site of more than one "rendezvous." In the Delta, Joseph, and others take great pride in their hunting ability, with animals such as panthers the prey. The "corvée," that is, the use of prisoners, builds the roads. There are many children, unattended by their mothers, who die along the roads, or from disease, and are quickly buried in the mud, with the earth packed down by the bare feet of their fathers.
Initially I had a "problem" with the title. The Pacific? Thought the water off the coast was the South China Sea. But for the woman, Suzanne's mother, from Pas de Calais, the South China Sea was too "provincial"; she would only refer to it with the expansive name of the ocean. I also had some other problems with her sense of geography - for example, there are no mountains in the Delta, and it was not the sea, per se, that was doing the flooding; it was the annual flood from the Mekong. A good friend suggested that she might have gotten a few particulars wrong due to her life-time companion, alcohol.
Overall, a strong novel, with interesting plot and character development, set against the background of deep economic and power inequality. 5-stars.
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