The Lorry (1977)
Movie
In this most talky and personal of films, director Marguerite Duras and actor Gerard Depardieu do an...
Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959)
Movie
A Japanese architect and French filmmaker fall in love in Hiroshima during the horrific time the...
Coming
Jean-Luc Nancy, Adele Van Reeth and Charlotte Mandell
Book
Coming is a lyrical, erudite examination of the French notion of jouissance. How did jouissance...
Suspended Passion: Interviews
Chris Turner and Marguerite Duras
Book
A controversial figure of the postwar French literary and cultural scene, Marguerite Duras has...
The Long Absence (1961)
Movie
Thérèse Langlois, who runs a small café in the suburbs of Paris, lives alone, awaiting her long...
The Disavowed Community
Jean-Luc Nancy and Philip Armstrong
Book
Over thirty years after Maurice Blanchot writes The Unavowable Community (1983)-a book that offered...