The ravishing of lol stein6/29/2023 This essay explores the use of sound–image disjunction in Marguerite Duras's India Song (1975) in relation to migration, bilingualism and cinema's metaphoric potential. This paper will argue that, despite the obvious dissimilarities of gender, genre, time, and erotic orientation, these writers’ depictions of Eros have more in common than is generally believed. Nonetheless, it is difficult to imagine two writers who have more powerfully written about erotic attraction than Plato and Duras. Certainly, Duras would have scoffed at the label Platonist. Stein and Le vice-consul, all the way to the young girl prostituted by her mother in L’amant, Eros is a constant theme in Duras and one seemingly far away from the ideal realm of spiritual love to which the name Platonic is given. From the opening shot of Hiroshima Mon Amour, where the intertwined limbs of lovers recall twisted corpses, to Moderato Cantabile, where Anne Desbarèsdes and Chauvin reconstruct the murder of a young woman by her presumed lover, to the mournful, often wordless eroticism of Le ravissement de Lol V. Love in her work is seldom idealized, often a compulsion, closely associated with death and mourning. Marguerite Duras is a novelist of erotic obsession.
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