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Practicalities by Marguerite Duras

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5.0

What I love above all: is her modesty. She touches me when she talks about serious things without ever taking pleasure. What makes me smile: is her megalomania when she talks about herself in the third person. What makes me sad: is that writing, inseparable from being "Marguerite Duras", inseparable from alcohol, inseparable from home, was as much what helped her to live as what drowned her. As a surface of contact with others, as a prison just as much. I wish and hope to be wrong, with the writing was more what drove her.