From Gender to Texture: the Interaction of Discursive and Stylistic Elements in Marguerite Duras’ Poetics of Prose: the Critical Reading of Women and Discourse in the Fiction of Marguerite Duras:Love, Legends, Language by Cohen

In her works, Marguerite Duras has presented new methods to the field of fiction  and has enriched French prose. With conciseness and poetic ambiguity and a deconstructive approach in expression Duras’ prose makes the reader staggered. Based on stream of consciousness narrative technique, From sentence to word, Duras rearranges predetermined and fixed grammatical rules and structures. This essay is allocated to the critical reading of one of the most influential references in literary criticism on Duras Works. Women and Discourse in the Fiction of Marguerite Duras: Love, Legends, Language is a comprehensive handbook in literary criticism which through a discursive approach and notions like genre, texture, intertextuality and style has scrutinized the unrevealed aspects of meaning in the fictional universe of Marguerite Duras.