Woman to woman / by Marguerite Duras & Xavière Gauthier ; translated and with an afterword by Katharine A. Jensen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Duras, Marguerite.

Contributor:

Gauthier, Xavière.

Series:

European women writers series

European women writers series.

Standardized Title:

Parleuses. English

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Duras, Marguerite--Interviews.

Duras, Marguerite.

Authors, French--20th century--Interviews.

Authors, French.

Interviews.

Genre:

Interviews.

Physical Description:

xii, 200 pages ; 20 cm.

Place of Publication:

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [1987]

Summary:

"" In the summer of 1973, the journalist Xaviè re Gauthier interviewed the writer and filmmaker Marguerite Duras for an article in" Le Monde" . The meeting began a productive friendship between the two women that included the recording of four more interviews. They spoke of writing, literature, criticism, film, madness, sex, desire, alienation, Marxism, the situation of women, and their "oppression by the phallic class." Published in 1974 in France as " Les Parleuses" , the book became a classic statement of a positive and politically forceful feminist stance and an influential exploration of how Western culture has constructed gender roles and dealt with sexuality.

Notes:

Translation of: Les parleuses.

Bibliography: pages 197-200.

ISBN:

0803216726

OCLC:

15017444