No More

In her last book, Marguerite Duras meditates with a fierce poetic fervour on facing death, her life''s literary work, and love. Sex, and death. All of Marguerite Duras''s writings are suffused wit ...

In her last book, Marguerite Duras meditates with a fierce poetic fervour on facing death, her life''s literary work, and love. Sex, and death. All of Marguerite Duras''s writings are suffused with the certitude that absolute love is both necessary (sex) and impossible to achieve (death). But no book of hers embodies this idea so powerfully, so excessively, as No More (C''est Tout), the book she composed during the last year of her life until just days before her death. No More (C''est Tout) is literature shorn of all its niceties, a shout from the depths of Duras''s being, celebrating life in