The World Outside I 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 1957 to 1980, 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】

"You see, sometimes I write for the papers myself. Now and then I write for the outside world, when the outside world swallows me up, when something happens that drives me crazy and makes me have to run out into the street - or when I have nothing better to do."

These words are written by Marguerite Duras for the world outside her. The so-called "outside" is relative to the "inside". Duras, who is keen on private writing, is also very interested in the outside world. Her workbench is very open. Media - although she claims to despise the media, politics - although she does not recognize the "intervention" literature of Sartre or Beauvoir, and all social, historical, political, artistic, all formal and informal, all moral and immoral.

What she loves is not so much a certain doctrine, but the turbulence and destruction contained in the movement itself. She advocates the "road of happy despair" and wants to prove through herself that human beings can live in despair.

——Yuan Xiaoyi

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