3.1 AVERAGE

sad slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
challenging slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

je crois que j'aime pas du tout duras 
mysterious slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

Li «O Vice-Cônsul» e posteriormente «India Song», uma adaptação em diálogos, que explica e completa este. Resultou!
Ler Duras é apreciar a beleza da escrita e sentir os ambientes; a sua produção literária tem recortes autobiográficos repensados e recriados. Uma necessidade de perpetuar a sua vida, e, nós, seus leitores, circulamos de livro em livro procurando as mesmas personagens na esperança - tantas vezes vã - , de compreendê-las. A obra da Duras vive da sua própria intertextualidade - implícita ou explícita - , daí talvez a originalidade da sua voz.

«Encostada às redes que cercam os campos de ténis desertos está uma bicicleta de mulher que pertence a Anne-Marie Stretter»

Sei que tenho um reencontro marcado com esta Anne-Marie Stretter; com o vice-cônsul, que a amou, talvez não.

J'aime ce genre d'œuvres où les lieux de confondent ; où les souvenirs, la fiction et le réel se superposent. Mais Duras pousse vraiment cela à l'extrême, il n'y pas a proprement parler de récit, mais beaucoup de divagations (beaucoup beaucoup) bien qu'elles ne soient pas inutiles. Je reconnais qu'elles ont permis de dresser les portraits des personnages principaux, et de développer leur symbolique.
Je cherchais une logique, mais peut-être que la logique est qu'il n'y en a pas ?
À relire pour mieux apprécier.
emotional slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
challenging reflective slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: N/A
Strong character development: N/A
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

Écriture énigmatique, esthétique de la déconstruction... Un livre qui mérite ses prouesses, mais qui n'est cependant pas mon genre de livre. 
challenging dark emotional funny mysterious reflective sad slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character

Lives washed up, coated in the muck of the Ganges. Waiting out their days, burning their lives away by night. Duras' incantatory stream of prose is undeniably hypnotic, even if her 1975 film adaptation would eventually bring the material to an even higher level by introducing the elements of sound and the passage of time. As a fan of India Song, what I most got out of this was the deeper, although somewhat unreliable, backstory for the mad beggarwoman of  Savannakhet, whose peculiar odyssey parallels that of Anne-Marie Stretter. One lives a life of continuous burden, the other of idleness and privilege, la vie tranquille, but they are bound together, unmoored, and drifting far away from their fading memories of home.
mysterious reflective slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes