Les frontières du moi durassien : l’écriture à l’épreuve de l’altérité
The borders of the Durassian Self: writing confronted with otherness

Summary/Abstract: The work of Marguerite Duras is a unique example of the quest for identity expressed through the exploration of the relationship between identity and otherness. These questions are central to the concerns of a writer whose distinctive feature is the transgression of boundaries. The two Durassian novels, Un barrage contre le Pacifique and L’Amant, perfectly illustrate this ongoing process of self-construction, which reveals an openness to otherness. These novels convey the author’s Indochinese experience and reflect, par excellence, her fantasy of hybrid identity, expressed through a return to origins, to the sources of her vocation. Marked by contradictions and by her belonging to two identities/cultures, she manages to transcend the boundaries between self and other through writing.

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