The expanding significance of the shrinking hero in the novels of Marguerite Duras.

For Marguerite Duras, life is an annihilating passion that is most appropriately expressed by an antithetical and irrational apprehension of reality. There is a progressive feminacy in the characters, be they men or women. The early novels, harmonious and cerebrally conceived, show a masculine, ordered interpretation of reality. With the middle and more recent works, wordy theorizing is replaced by a muted, poetic introversion of experience. The emergence of the psychotic heroes and antiheroes reveals Duras' revolt against the Freudian reality principle which masks the antithetical, destructive nature of human experience.

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• Olson, Robert Lydon,

• Literature, Romance.

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http://hdl.handle.net/11244/4889

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