Tales from the Reading Room (Free subscription) | 11/28/2009
Waiting is an important element in stories about women. They are often obliged to demonstrate their patience in the way that men in stories are called upon to demonstrate their physical or mental strength. Women must wait until men are finally able to declare themselves romantically, they must wait for the sick to heal, and [...]
Tales from the Reading Room (Free subscription) | 11/26/2009
In honour of Thanksgiving, which we don’t celebrate in the UK, here is a very short little meme, which you are most welcome to do if it pleases you. What reasons do you have to be grateful for books? Without any undue exaggeration, books have been my life so far, and I hope it’ll continue that way. [...]
CAPES & FORESTS (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
Nico reading. I really want a pair of white Levi's for my birthday. * AN INTERVIEW WITH MARGUERITE DURAS - SUSAN HUSSERL-KAPIT (WINTER 1975) MD: I think feminine literature is an organic, translated writing... translated from blackness, from darkness. Women have been in darkness for centuries. They don't know themselves. Or only poorly. And when women write, they translate this darkness. SHK: More...
Metro.co.uk (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Film review: A lush and steamy adaptation of Marguerite Duras's autobiographical first novel, set in 1931 Cambodia.
The Independent (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Isabelle Huppert's brittle poise dominates this adaptation of Marguerite Duras's novel of colonialism in eclipse.
Daily Express (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
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Daily Express (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
THE prejudices and injustices of the colonial era are the familiar ingredients at the heart of The Sea Wall, a languorous adaptation of a Marguerite Duras novel.
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
This glossy, soapy tale will inevitably trigger fond memories of the once controversial 1992 film The Lover, says Peter Bradshaw This glossy, soapy tale will inevitably trigger fond memories of the once controversial 1992 film The Lover, starring Jane March and Tony Leung: a teenage girl has an affair with a worldly older man in 1920s French Indo-China. That was based on a Marguerite Duras novel -...
FilmTrailer.com (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
Original Title: Un Barrage contre le Pacifique Genre: Drama Cinema Premiere: 20/11/2009 Production Country: France Directed By: Rithy Panh Producer: Genevieve Lemal , Alexandre Lippens , Cati Couteau , Catherine Dussart Cast: Lucy Harrison , Gaspard Ulliel , Astrid Berges-Frisbey , Randal Douc , Stéphane Rideau , Isabelle Huppert Production Year: 2008 Plot Outline: Widely praised following its...
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
Composer, bandleader and Tzadik label founder John Zorn has long honored women in the arts, through dedications such as "Redbird" (for Agnes Martin), "Duras" (for Marguerite Duras) and "In the Very Eye of Night" (for Maya Deren), and through Tzadik's Oracles Series, which "celebrates the diversity and creativity of women in experimental music." Femina is his...
jellybean weirdo with electric snake fang (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
Sweet Lamia! I am the coffee in your father's bladder, I am the coffee amoeba crouton ladder which is made of skin chairs collecting typewriters made of coral apostropheces, too many lame lamias laying in my bed. Marguerite Duras. Marguerite Duras. Think of a cosmic being with a sun for a heart. Think of a cosmic being with a sun for a brain and two suns for eyes like RAY MILLAND. golden pupils we...
Joshuah Bearman (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
Looks like they don't have Noël Godin covered. I love a scoop! So I submitted the following: Godin is a writer and critic but is best known for throwing cream pies in people's faces. Since 1969, Godin has planted cream...
dulcetly... (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
to see : Playing with Pictures: The Art of Victorian Photocollage to read: Marguerite Duras' entire oeuvre to eat: cinnamon toast to wear: this sweater dress to watch: Fringe, Season 1 to listen: Fine Frenzy's Bomb in A Birdcage .
New York Times (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
The French writer Marie NDiaye won France’s Prix Goncourt Monday for “Three Strong Women,” her tale of the struggles of women in Europe and Africa.
Boston Globe (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
French-born writer Marie NDiaye won France's top literary prize Monday for "Three Strong Women," her moving tale of the struggles of woman in Europe and Africa.
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