Marguerite Duras o la vergogna sospesa

Fabio Vasarri

2021-01-01

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Abstract

According to Jean-Pierre Martin (La honte, 2017), shame is a prevalent emotion in Marguerite Duras's autofictional work. Despite Duras’s opposite tendency to shamelessness, shame resists in the background and is never eliminated. This article develops and prolongs Martin’s remarks, focusing on social shame in the Indochinese cycle and political shame in La douleur. It also proposes a comparison with some divergent positions on this issue, namely existentialism (Sartre) and autosociobiography (Ernaux). Duras's treatment of shame is consistent with her poetics of suspension and the unspoken.