"Material Life" contains 48 essays and essays by Duras, involving the author's own works, as well as other related aspects, his acquaintance with Jan Andre, and the author's illness caused by drinking. , is also the material recorded in the book.
Material Life is a book about writing, love and memory, and in Writing, Love and Memory, a theme runs through: this is self. This self is often the writer himself, but sometimes it also represents all women and tells all women's stories. ?
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Creation background
According to the introduction, this book was written in 1986 from beginning of autumn to the end of winter. It is said that every text is told to her friend Jerome Borul, and then written, read by them, revised by the author, and read by Borul.
In this process, I also encountered some difficulties and problems, such as the topic, which is said to have been "abandoned" and seems to have been solved.
Finally, the author revised it himself, "simplify the text and make it light and calm", but this is also the "common opinion" of the author and the interlocutor.
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