Duras

British  

/ dyra /

noun

1. Marguerite , real name Marguerite Donnadieu . 1914–96, French novelist born in Giadinh, Indochina (now in Vietnam). Her works include The Sea Wall (1950), Practicalities (1990), Écrire (1993), and the script for the film Hiroshima mon amour (1960)

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Example Sentences

Blanc’s character, lifted from a book by the French author Marguerite Duras, awaits her husband’s return from a Nazi concentration camp in 1945, uncertain whether he is even alive.

From New York Times • Mar. 8, 2024

Lawrence, Doris Lessing, Marguerite Duras and Thomas Hardy, Gornick astutely shows how books are intertwined with ourselves, shifting and evolving over time even as we do.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 7, 2023

They take issues that I quote Duras and Pasolini.

From Salon • Jan. 9, 2023

I confess I had not read Duras before “The Easy Life,” so I prepared myself for an undisciplined, experimental work — an idea that was both alluring and off-putting.

From Washington Post • Dec. 15, 2022

But of all that company who had been present at the reading  of the will, none experienced such painful emotions as Dr. Duras.

From Wagner, the Wehr-Wolf by Reynolds, George W. M. (George William MacArthur)