The Current Under The Hard Ice

Marguerite Duras(1914-1996), a famous female writer, took the vital important position in contemporary French literature for her unique writing and living style. With high female consciousness, Duras wrote from the standpoint of a woman who knew clearly what kind of life the woman had lived, which made her speak and write more freely. Duras'works relate to novel, drama, essay, and film(script), most of which, except those early few be listed into"New Realism", support the French Feminism theories——She gestured to rebel the Phallus-Logos by showing a unique discourse on the relationship between Male and Female, Sex and Love, Jouissance and Pain, Self and Society, etc.Basing on the traditional close reading and some related research, I propose a feminist reading of Duras, by which interprets her contribution to and influence on the female writing. The thesis can be divided into two parts. By analyzing the marginal status of the writer and her characters, the first part stresses the marginal color of Duras'life and text. Duras came from the margin: her early childhood/oriental life made her ostracize the mainstream instinctively. The"marginal mind"came from the marginal experience of life and culture, which made her care about the woman and the inferior who have been expelled to margin. Hence her literary perspective and standpoint, showing an antagonism of margin vs mainstream, subculture vs culture, is naturally identified with the Female Literature. Then the thesis, starting with Duras'narrative angle and skill, tries to analyze her rebellious gesture and her female caring. Duras viewed, experienced and expressed the world from the standpoint of a female. She aimed to emphasize the female perspective and standpoint in writing as well as their experience towards life in detail. The"privatized"narrative means an antagonism to masculine"Great Narrative". Hence her writing is isolated, desperate and crazy.Duras stressed the proportion of desire in female life and her writing, which were also a typical...