8 Books Coming in December. A newly translated novel by Marguerite Duras, a book on exotic sea creatures and what we share with them, the letters of John le Carré: December brings books for ...

Musée Duras appears to be a singular stage experience, reinterpreting the work of Marguerite Duras through a living, moving device. Conceived as a space for dialogue between text and stage presence, ...

Marguerite Duras, left, was a major influence on Annie Ernaux, winner of this year’s Nobel Prize in literature, and the generation of women writers who came after them.

Duras: A Biography By Alain Vircondelet Translated by Thomas Buckley Dalkey Archive, 376 pages, $24.95 Best known in this country as the writer of screenplays for “Hiroshima Mon Amour” and ...

The French novelist Marguerite Duras’s second book, The Easy Life, which has just been translated into English for the first time by Olivia Baes and Emma Ramadan, might not be much of a draw by ...

Marguerite wasn’t always Duras. She was born Donnadieu, but with the publication of her first novel, “Les Impudents,” in 1943, she went from Donnadieu to Duras and stayed that way.

Lili Owen Rowlands on Marguerite Duras’s novel “The Easy Life,” newly translated by Olivia Baes and Emma Ramadan, and its themes of domesticity and sexuality.

Few great works of literature get any advertising at all, but Marguerite Duras’s “La Douleur” (literally, “Pain”), from 1985, which was drawn largely from her own Second World War ...

From Marguerite Duras, an Uncovered Tale of Young Womanhood “The Easy Life,” the author’s second novel, is translated into English for the first time. By Alexandra Jacobs ...

8 Books Coming in December. A newly translated novel by Marguerite Duras, a book on exotic sea creatures and what we share with them, the letters of John le Carré: December brings books for ...