NDLI: A Happy Ending but an Unhappy Fate: Marguerite Duras’ La Vie tranquille

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Author	English, elle
Copyright Year	2009
Abstract	This article begins by analysing the various critical reactions to Duras’ (La Vie tranquille, Gallimard, Paris, 1944) second novel, La Vie tranquille and seeks to find a reason for its lack of critical success. Through looking at Duras’ personal situation at the time of this novel’s conception, it finds that the deaths of both her brother and her first child influence not only the representation of grief in the novel, but also its various attempts to envisage optimism, both through the voice of its narrator and through its use of myth and metaphor. In the light of Miller’s (PMLA 96(1):36–48, 1981) interpretation of Genette’s (Figures II, Seuil, Paris, 1969) theory of ‘vraisemblance’, it finds that the common criticism of the novel on the grounds of its plausibility actually highlights why this is a highly significant novel in terms of feminist writing and in the assessment of Duras’ career.
Starting Page	43
Ending Page	53
Page Count	11
File Format	PDF
ISSN	00282677
Journal	Neophilologus
Volume Number	94
Issue Number	1
e-ISSN	15728668
Language	English
Publisher	Springer Netherlands
Publisher Date	2009-07-07
Publisher Place	Dordrecht
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Duras La Vie tranquille Miller Genette Syntax Comparative Literature Philology Comparative Linguistics Historical Linguistics
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Linguistics and Language Literature and Literary Theory

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