Duras, Marguerite - Six Films

The Englishlanguage debut of a beautiful and beguiling cycle of experimental texts by the legendary Marguerite Duras. In the late 1970s, Marguerite Duras embarked on an experimental journey to expand the boundaries of writing and film. For Duras, writing need not be text on a page nor cinema merely images on a screen.Six Filmsis the result of her efforts to redefine the two arts in order to create a hybrid work. Taking narration, voiceovers, and dialogue from six of her films, Duras reenvisions them as extended prose poems and monologues, tangling with selfidentity, personal relationships, colonialism, and expression as the celluloid images recede and the text becomes the film itself. Now available for the first time in English,Six Filmsis a document of an artist at the apex of her creative prowess.