Marguerite Duras Worn Out with Desire to Write

She was the sort of woman who spared neither herself nor othersand arguably qualifies as 20thcentury Frances greatest femme de lettres In this interview the late novelist and filmmaker talks openly about the hardship and the romance of her childhood in French Indochina sharing how this period haunted her life and shaped her work Excerpts from her films and readings from her books by actress Elizabeth Rider and Duras herselfincluding The Lover winner of the Prix Goncourt and translated into more than forty languagesbring to life those formative years in Vietnam