Practicalities

"It's the women who upset the applecart. Between themselves they talk only about the practicalities of life", declares Duras in this collection of her transcribed conversations with friend Jerome Beaujour. Some of her free-ranging meditations are short and deceptively simple, while many are autobiographical and reveal her most intimate thoughts about motherhood, her struggle with alcohol, her love for a young man, and more.

Duras was born in Indochina and died in Paris.

This book helped us pass the time

1

(2)

The smell of chemicals

3

(3)

The Ladies of the Black Rocks

6

(2)

The motorway of the word

8

(1)

The theatre

9

(3)

The last customer at night

12

(3)

Alcohol

15

(5)

The pleasures of the 6th arrondissement

20

(1)

Vinh Long

21

(2)

Hanoi

23

(2)

The black block

25

(5)

Bonnard

30

(1)

The blue of the scarf

31

(2)

Men

33

(9)

House and home

42

(19)

Cabourg

61

(1)

Animals

62

(1)

Trouville

63

(1)

The star

64

(1)

The M.D. uniform

65

(2)

Writers' bodies

67

(2)

Alain Veinstein

69

(2)

Racine's forests

71

(2)

The train from Bordeaux

73

(3)

The book

76

(5)

Quillebeuf

81

(1)

The man who was a lie

82

(6)

Photographs

88

(2)

The Cutter-off of Water

90

(5)

Figon, Georges

95

(3)

Walesa's wife

98

(2)

The telly and death

100

(3)

A way with words

103

(1)

The green steak

104

(2)

Won't you?

106

(2)

The watchtowers at Poissy

108

(3)

The Vasty Deep

111

(2)

Paris

113

(4)

The red sofa

117

(2)

The round stones

119

(2)

The chest of drawers

121

(2)

Wasting time

123

(1)

The chimneys of India Song

124

(3)

The voice in Navire Night

127

(2)

Eating at night

129

(1)

October 1982

130

(3)

A dangerous state

133

(1)

Letters

134

(1)

The people of the night

135

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