Marguerite Duras and autobiography: the truth pact called into question

Abstract

The publication of Marguerite Duras’s unpublished manuscripts in 2006, Les Cahiers de la guerre et autres textes, not only sheds new light on the author’s creative writing process, it also sheds new light on the generic membership of L’Amant, the text published in 1984 and for which she won the Prix Goncourt. The first section, Cahier rose marbré, also explores the complex relationships between the original novel, the autobiographical novel Un barrage contre le Pacifique, L’Amant, presented by the author herself as autobiographical, and the fictional work.