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“La solitude de l'auteur” en tant que condition sine qua non de l'acte créateur chez Marguerite Duras

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Loneliness seems to be a leitmotif of Marguerite Duras’s literary oeuvre. It is interpreted by the writer primarily as a personal experience, a specific form of freedom, the dominant expression of which is silence expressing pain, loss, inability to communicate with other people, unfulfilled love. Loneliness is also seen as a sine qua non condition that allows one to focus on oneself, to close oneself in one’s own world. This is an indispensable element of the author’s poetics, the one having an ontological character, referring to “the way of thinking, reasoning”. Duras treats loneliness as a typical condition of every true writer, inscribed in his or her condition, and argues that one can be creative only in complete isolation from others. This experience allows one to face the challenge of creative work, which primarily involves loneliness in the physical sense, i.e. space, “someone’s own room”. This individual choice enables one to free oneself from all external authority, conventions and social norms, giving the sense of autonomy, so needed to the artist, especially to a woman-writer. In this way, loneliness, which is omnipresent in the discourse of Duras, becomes a means of gaining independence and a full manifestation of her own uninhibited “I”.