Marguerute Duras' Novel And Female Writing

Marguerute Duras (1914-1996), the renowned woman writer of contemporary France who has yielded enormous novels, plays and film scripts, displays her remarkable artistic talent. Duras was defiant of any set rules. She lived and wrote with her extraordinary passion. In this thesis, the author presents her personal global understanding of Duras's styles and features as well as a micro-analysis of her textual world, and intends to approach her characteristics of novel writing and contribution to female writing.The thesis is divided into five parts. In the first part, through an analysis of the relationship between Duras's early life experience and literary creation, the author comes to the conclusion that Duras's novels are nothing but "a world of the soul". In this spiritual space of Duras, language is the material, narration is the form, and her individuality is the logic. The second part sums up Duras's global features of novel writing. These features are important symbol that distinguished her from other writers. Here the author of this thesis bases her analysis on five aspects: free writing; reality and fabrication; readability and rereadability; language and significance; images and voice. The third part mainly deals with the concept "desire" and concretely analyzes the content of Duras's novels. By "desire" the author refers to women's effort for realizing their own value and self. Its objects are partly natural and physiological, but mainly spiritual. The desire normally takes the form of "emotion": love and passion. In Duras's textual world, the main characters are mainly women in the identity of "marginalized ones". The "abnormality" of these women is their refusal against being oppressed. They are "crazy" because they want to rebel against constraints. Through writing, women win for themselves extensive social space and a place in culture, politics and life. The fourth part analyzes Duras's rich and profoundnarrative practice from two angles: anti-narrative structure and streaming narrative perspectives. The fifth part sums up the contribution of Duras's novel to female writing. Duras's novel take root in the woman soul and feature the particular feminine ways of existence, experience and interpretation. To avoid restoring women to the merely biological human beings, Duras turned to the usefof language. She went beyond the boundaries of language systems, remolded the process of language, and bestowed upon language fresh meaningfulness. Duras cleared up in her writings binary antagonism. The basic purpose of the female writing that Duras represents is to transform the two-gender culture from a state of intense conflict to a state of mutual harmony.