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It's written to be a play and maybe it would have had more impact if I had experienced it in that way. The narration relies on dialogue to reveal the plot of the story which modes very slowly over the same visual scènes. I avoided making curries. Maybe it's a translation problem, maybe I'm not artsy enough to understand it, or maybe the author and her interviewers were just full of shit. current price. I don't know if I could ultimately tell you. Slightly existential, leaning more toward a play than a novel- would love to see it performed as she suggests. And? 10% OFF. Submit review. current price. It was also a movie, and Duras's fictions have, of course, been filmed before, From the likes of Alain Resnais to Jules Dassin, but this was her first movie wholly her own, and she has come up with some surprises. $4.49. But when Stein repeats "She said 'destroy'", Bernard looks like he suddenly is accepting the play, as he mutters "Anything is possible", says he wants to stay but then takes his wife and leaves. $4.04. Included in this volume is an in-depth interview with Marguerite Duras by Jacques Rivette and Jean Narboni. This book is very French in that weird let interesting way. In an interview included at in the book Duras says: "I did have the idea of a book... that could be either read or acted or filmed or, I always add, simply thrown away.". Marguerite Germaine Marie Donnadieu (4 April 1914 – 3 March 1996), known as Marguerite Duras (French: [maʁɡ(ə)ʁit dyʁas]), was a French novelist, playwright, screenwriter, essayist, and experimental filmmaker.Her script for the film Hiroshima mon amour (1959) earned her a nomination for Best Original Screenplay at the Academy Awards -- At least, that's what I think. Just beyond, the woods, always the woods, a lure, a threat, a veil, a plot unfulfilled but tantalizing. It also analyzes reviews to verify trustworthiness. A couple years ago I was living in a basement suite, a bachelor pad, a single room with a half wall that divided the kitchen from the living and sleeping room and then a full wall that separated the kitchen from the bathroom, which was given the dignity of having its own door. Like many of Duras's novels, Destroy, She Said owes much to cinema, displaying a skillful interplay of dialogue and description. If the witches of Fey fall under the tyrannical rein of Brigid, Goddess of the Sun, The Morrigan will join their lost siblings — but Brigid has deeply underestimated the witches’ faith in her sister. Duras...she's great, for me this is second-tier Duras. Possibly because she is a lady. The Lover, Wartime Notebooks, Practicalities (Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Series), Four Novels: The Square / Moderato Cantabile / 10:30 on a Summer Night / The Afternoon of Mr. Andesmas, The Sailor from Gibraltar (Open Letter Modern Classics), BLUE EYES, BLACK HAIR (Pantheon Modern Writers). Available For Pull List! Not Yet Rated 1 hr 34 min Sep 25th, 1969 Drama. I've read quite a few now, and Destroy, She Said would probably be up there hovering around my top five. Their seduction begins with this simple idea that you do not have to follow the rules. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Consistently you are moved from character to character as the camera, at some moments there will be no identification as to who is speaking but somehow the blanks fill themselves in. Short, but I chose to read it slowly, over a month, at a similar pacing to the events in the book. Word Horde presents the debut collection from critically-acclaimed Weird Fiction author Nadia Bulkin. Like many of Duras's novels, Destroy, She Said owes much to cinema, displaying a skillful interplay of dialogue and description. Along with her film "India Song," it is one of my favorite films of all time, and it saddens me that to the best of my knowledge it is not currently available on DVD or. I love, love, love this author. Something went wrong. I will read it again though, I"m gonna try to work through her entire oeuvre. 0 Reviews Fewer than 50 Ratings You might also like. Still, I urge readers to try her. I love Duras's style, but I just don't get it. They spend much of the book engaging in conversations and semierotic acts which seem utterly pregnant with meaning despite lacking any sort of meaningful foundation whatsoever. She Said Destroy #3. original price. No not grossed, bored and frustrated. 2. 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