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Marguerite Duras
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Palau de La Virreina la Rambla 99, Barcelona

Photo courtesy of Barcelona Cultura.
Marguerite Duras was one of the most influential European writers and filmmakers of the second half of the 20th century. The author of fifty-six books—including novels, journalistic writings and theatre plays—nineteen films and a dozen or so screenplays, Duras remains not only a cultural figure but also, above all in France, a true popular icon.
An early voice railing against the “vampirisme colonial” in French Indochina in her book Un Barrage Contre le Pacifique ("The Sea Wall," 1950) and an active member of the “groupe de la rue Saint-Benoît” — she welcomed the likes of Robert Antelme, Dionys Mascolo, Maurice Blanchot, Edgar Morin, Jean Genet, Jorge Semprún and François Mitterrand, among others, to meetings at her house — Marguerite Duras went on an ideological journey from the early 1940s to the late 1970s that mirrored the contradictions of an age indelibly shaped by the Second World War, orthodox Communism, May ’68 and the struggles of the first feminist movement.
This exhibit, curated by Valentín Roma, examines her work and its impact.
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