L’ironie et ses formes discursives dans la réception critique de l’œuvre de Marguerite Duras
Irony and its discursive forms in the critical reception of the work of Marguerite Duras

Summary/Abstract: In literary creation, as well as in the critical reception of a work, specific writing processes are used which create different effects, depending on the reaction that the author seeks to trigger in the reader. The writer and the critic each uses a certain register, according to their intentions, their own vision of the world and the work. If, especially in the 80s and until his death in 1996, Duras wrote without worrying about the reactions of the critics, even adopting a defiant attitude towards reception, by completely refusing traditional writing, critical reception reserves a welcome turned to mockery and exhaustion, fully using all the means associated with satirical register and irony. Acid and mocking press articles, caricatures, puns and parody about Marguerite Duras and her writing appear in the 80s and 90s one after the other in the pages of newspapers or in bookstores, to denounce a writing that blurs the boundaries between reality and fiction, passing for real what exists only in the imagination of the writer, or to denounce thematic recycling. Patrick Rambaud’s parodies imitate Durassian writing to make the reader laugh and to better criticize it.

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