RUINS, DESTRUCTION AND MEMORIES IN THE WORKS BY MARGUERITE DURAS

Abstract

Ruins is a concept frequently used by the French writer Marguerite Duras in her works of literature and cinema. In Duras' literature, the concept of ruins carries many layers of underlying semantic values: destruction and remains, actions and status, past and present, and revival of memories. The choice of ruins as the setting for the works seems to stem from the writer’s attachment to places where she used to live: the Indochinese land where she was born and raised, the home of her father in Platier and the house house in Neauphle-le-Château (France)