Marguerite Duras is considered one of the most important French authors of the 20th century. Her oeuvre extends to the fields of prose, drama and film. In her oeuvre she intertwines two media: literature and film. Marguerite Duras’s opus can be read through the prism of colonial and postcolonial studies, postmodern critiques, and gender studies. The central focus of my research is the connection between her literary and filmmaking. By replacing the medium in the 1980s, Marguerite Duras rejects traditional forms of narration and linguistic expression. Her writing becomes exclusive writing for the film, trying to replace lettering with image and sound. This transformation into a film gives rise to the complete destruction of the text, and above all it attempts to redefine literature and language through the crossings of different media and the opposition between literary and filmic norms. In my thesis, I will explore how the visual and narrative components are related in her works. I will try to find out in what way she tells her, for the most part, autobiographical story through themes, motives, images, which are also reflected in her metaphors and framing. To this end, I will compare the novel Moderato cantabile with the film India Song.
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