Exposition Marguerite Duras : Toute une vie j'ai écrit
An exhibition centered on the author, featuring personal items, photos, excerpts from her works, research materials, and films—an exhibition designed to help visitors better understand and appreciate Marguerite Duras.
The Marguerite Duras Association was born in 1997, because of the links with the Pays de Duras.
Marguerite Duras' father, originally from the Lot-et-Garonne, went to teach in Indochina where Marguerite was born in 1914. In 1921, ill, he returned to France and bought a house near Duras, Platier, in which he died prematurely, far from his family in Indochina. Marguerite, his mother and his two brothers, came to live in this house from 1922 to 1924 and then in 1931 for the sale of the estate.
In 1943 Marguerite Duras published her first novel: Les Impudents. When it was published - the action of which took place in the house of Platier, on the banks of the Dropt - she left Donnadieu, her father's name, and adopted Duras definitively as her writing name.
In September, she organizes the BIENNALES MARGUERITE DURAS in even years and the RENCONTRES DE DURAS in odd years.
