Duras, Writing, and the Ethical Making the Broken Whole [Hardcover]

This book offers a study of the whole of Duras's written oeuvre, covering journalism and lesser-known works as well as more famous texts. It brings out the constant presence of ethical questions in and around the experiences of passion and excess with which her work is always concerned, and subjects Duras's texts to an unprecedented level of close reading, carrying her beyond the terms of her usual reception.

Introduction
I. Impossible Enactment
1. The Writing of the Beyond
2. The Temporalilty of the Event
3. The Politics of Incomprehension
Interlude
II. Confident Uncertainties
4. Writing and Historical Trauma
5. Writing and Sex
6. Writing and the Self
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index

[Crowley] argues convincingly that Duras's work forces readers to confront the ethical questions with which it is nonetheless suffused.... This nuanced, serious, and philosophically informed study is a major departure and broadening of the field.... The most significant and thorough piece of Duras scholarship since Leslie Hill'sMarguerite Duras: Apocalyptic Desires(1993), this is an essential addition to all libraries supporting work at the upper-division undergraduate level and above. --Choice