Abstract

KUNTZ, Maria Cristina Vianna. The feeling of compassion in Marguerite Duras’s War: A Memoir. Rev. bras. psicanál [online]. 2022, vol.56, n.2, pp.81-95.  Epub Aug 19, 2024. ISSN 0486-641X.  https://doi.org/10.5935/0486-641x.v56n2.07.

Marguerite Duras’s War: A Memoir is an assemblage of six narratives that take place during the German Occupation of France in the Second World War. The first narrative is a kind of diary. The character, who is also the narrator, tells the anguish she suffered while waiting for her husbands possible return. He had been kept in a prisoner-of-war camp for two years. Freud gives us elements to comprehend the narrators depressive state. The elements of terror and pity can be observed in this tragic narrative. In this work, the author will show that Duras’s fragmentary and subjective writing comes from the state of pain and helplessness, in a context of terror created by the war, arousing then the reader’s compassion.

Keywords : Marguerite Duras; compassion; war; anguish; helplessness.

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