CHAPTER VI: DURAS' "LAUGHING CURE" FOR LACAN'S HYSTERICAL LACK.

Chapter 6 of the book "In Language and in Love: Marguerite Duras: The Unspeakable" is presented. The chapter presents a discussion of the novel "La Maladie de la mort," by Marguerite Duras, which tells a story of desire that plays upon the structures of both romance and pornography. According to the...

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Published in:In Language & In Love: Marguerite Duras - The Unspeakable pp. 100 - 119
Main Author: Balén, Julia
Format: Book Chapter
Published: Digitalia Publishing Corp. 1992
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Summary:Chapter 6 of the book "In Language and in Love: Marguerite Duras: The Unspeakable" is presented. The chapter presents a discussion of the novel "La Maladie de la mort," by Marguerite Duras, which tells a story of desire that plays upon the structures of both romance and pornography. According to the author, Duras explores the territory beyond ravissement, creating subjectivities in the preludic conditional tense, remembering the language of childhood games.