The Surviving Love of Marguerite Duras
After ten years of working on the documentary genre, director Alain Resnais is asked to work on a production which deals with the cruelty of war and the deadly effects of the atomic bomb in Hiroshima. But he changes the project and decides to make a film. He, therefore, chooses Marguerite Duras, scr...
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Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios sobre Cultura y Sociedad
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| description | After ten years of working on the documentary genre, director Alain Resnais is asked to work on a production which deals with the cruelty of war and the deadly effects of the atomic bomb in Hiroshima. But he changes the project and decides to make a film. He, therefore, chooses Marguerite Duras, screenplay writer and filmmaker. The result is the famous film Hiroshima mon amour (1959), which constitutes her debut. According to Marguerite, the main purpose of the film was to stop describing the “horror for its own sake”. To do so, the film describes a love story out of the ordinary: the leading lady will remember her first love and its tragic ending. The writer highlights the experience of not dying of love, showing in detail a path that goes from shadows to light and links reflections on Hiroshima (death) to love (life). The title of this work highlights the surviving love and its content relates Marguerite’s creation, especially that love story, to some of the concepts that we work in psychoanalysis, such as: the “petit a” object, and love and mourning, the latter being a necessary element “not to die of love”. |
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| spelling | oai:ojs.revistas.unc.edu.ar:article-164962020-02-06T14:50:26Z The Surviving Love of Marguerite Duras El amor superviviente de Marguerite Duras Suárez, Claudia Hiroshima mon amour Psicoanálisis Objeto petit a Amor Duelo Hiroshima mon amour Psychoanalysis Object petit a Love Mourning After ten years of working on the documentary genre, director Alain Resnais is asked to work on a production which deals with the cruelty of war and the deadly effects of the atomic bomb in Hiroshima. But he changes the project and decides to make a film. He, therefore, chooses Marguerite Duras, screenplay writer and filmmaker. The result is the famous film Hiroshima mon amour (1959), which constitutes her debut. According to Marguerite, the main purpose of the film was to stop describing the “horror for its own sake”. To do so, the film describes a love story out of the ordinary: the leading lady will remember her first love and its tragic ending. The writer highlights the experience of not dying of love, showing in detail a path that goes from shadows to light and links reflections on Hiroshima (death) to love (life). The title of this work highlights the surviving love and its content relates Marguerite’s creation, especially that love story, to some of the concepts that we work in psychoanalysis, such as: the “petit a” object, and love and mourning, the latter being a necessary element “not to die of love”. Luego de diez años de abordar el género documental, se le encarga al director Alain Resnais una producción que trate sobre la crueldad de la guerra y los mortíferos efectos de la bomba atómica en Hiroshima. Pero cambia de proyecto y decide hacer una película, para la cual elige a Marguerite Duras, escritora y también cineasta, para el guión. El resultado es el famoso filme Hiroshima mon amour (1959), que se constituye en su ópera prima. Según Marguerite, el designio principal de la película ha sido acabar con la descripción del “horror por el horror”. Para ello, relata una historia de amor fuera de lo común: su protagonista femenina va a recordar a su primer amor y su trágico final. La guionista destaca la experiencia de no morir de amor, mostrando en detalle un tránsito que va desde las sombras hacia la luz y enlaza la reflexión sobre Hiroshima (muerte) y el amor (vida). El título de este trabajo destaca el amor superviviente y su contenido relaciona la creación de Marguerite, en particular esa historia de amor, con algunos de los conceptos con los que se trabaja en psicoanálisis, como son: el objeto petit a, el amor y el duelo, siendo éste último un camino necesario para “no morir de amor”. Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios sobre Cultura y Sociedad 2016-11-01 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion application/pdf https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/eticaycine/article/view/16496 10.31056/2250.5415.v6.n3.16496 Ética y Cine Journal; Vol. 6 Núm. 3 (2016): Antigone; 23-27 2250-5415 2250-5660 10.31056/2250.5415.v6.n3 spa https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/eticaycine/article/view/16496/16318 Derechos de autor 2016 Ética&Cine Journal |
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