The World Outside II Author: [France] Marguerite Duras Publisher: CITIC Press

★ "I will write for the outside world, whenever the outside world swallows me up, whenever something happens that drives me crazy and makes me have to run out and walk to the street"★

From 1962 to 1993, Duras, who was keen on private writing, wrote for the outside world.

★The "outside world" is the inner world wrapped in the outer world★

【Content Introduction】

This book contains newspaper articles, prefaces, letters and essays written by Marguerite Duras between 1962 and 1993, some of which have been published and some have never been published. Some articles are about social events in France at that time, and some are about a favorite movie, a painting that I have watched for a long time, an encounter, or a lonely night.

These articles may seem scattered, but they actually contain a kind of continuity. This continuity is not limited to the order of time. It comes from the theme itself. There may not be any real connection between the themes, but they intersect and respond to each other.

The theme of the whole book is perhaps a certain idea of ​​France, a France that is more shown than told, a nation open to all winds.

Her passion was the only thing on the line, and she fought for it, doing things that many people with tens of millions of dollars couldn't do.

——Los Angeles Times Book Review (about The World Outside)