Louis Vuitton patrocina livro com textos de Marguerite Duras

"La beauté des nuits du monde" é o título do livro que a Louis Vuitton e La Quinzaine Littéraire lançam a 4 de Novembro. Trata-se de uma compilação de textos de Marguerite Duras, escolhidos e apresentados por Laure Adler. O livro insere-se na colecção "Viajar com..." e contém relatos de locais por onde Duras, que não gostava de viajar, passou. Inclui 30 fotografias, de Dominique Issermann. Deve custar 25 €
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VOYAGER AVEC MARGUERITE DURAS
La beauté des nuits du monde
Texts chosen and introduced by Laure Adler
Photos by Dominique Issermann

ON NOVEMBER 4TH 2010, LOUIS VUITTON AND LA QUINZAINE LITTÉRAIRE WILL BE
PUBLISHING AN ORIGINAL WORK FOLLOWING THE FOOTSTEPS OF MARGUERITE
DURAS, ONE OF THE GREATEST WRITERS OF THE 20TH CENTURY.
OFTEN INSPIRED BY THE WRITER’S IMAGINATION, THE TEXTS SELECTED BY LAURE
ADLER MAKE US DISCOVER PLACES THAT HAVE CONTRIBUTED IN ENRICHING HER
WORK.
TROUVILLE, HER ADOPTED TOWN WHERE SHE LIKED TO BOTH “FIND HERSELF”
AND “LOSE HERSELF”, IS HIGHLIGHTED THROUGH THIRTY PHOTOGRAPHS BY
DOMINIQUE ISSERMANN.

LE LIVRE
Marguerite Duras did not like to travel. She may have lived in Indochina until her late teens, but the descriptions of the far-flung landscapes that richly populate her work owe more to the imagination than memory, and it was from her rereading of the Old Testament that inspired her in describing the light and space in Palestine.

Laure Adler, who has a deep and empathic understanding of Marguerite Duras and her work, has composed an itinerary that – from the sea to death, through the suspended time of Sundays in the colonies or summer evenings in Italy “where Campari assuages lovers’ thirst” – takes us on a rediscovery of one of the most original bodies of 20th-century work. “Everything moves, everything trembles, everything reels, when her writing takes hold of us,” writes Laure Adler.

“Duras captivates and destabilises us, taking us on a walk through streets with our eyes wide open at the apparent banality of the world.”

Duras had a feel for houses and places, where she invented a world, her world, from next to nothing.

Her Les Roches Noires apartment in Trouville was one of these magical settings. Dominique Issermann, who was her neighbour there, invites us through the thirty photographs that illustrate this book to revisit the world of Marguerite Duras: her house, her objects – shells, various relics thrown up by the sea, pieces of fabric, chipped crockery, mementos lovingly collected and arranged, which were a whole journey in themselves to her.

THE AUTHORS

Marguerite Duras was born in Indochina in 1914. She published her first novel in 1943, but it was with Un barrage contre le Pacifique (The Sea Wall) that she came to prominence in 1950. She would receive the Prix Goncourt in 1984 for L’Amant (The Lover). She also wrote for the theatre and cinema and directed several films herself, including her most famous one, India Song, in 1975. She died in Paris in 1996.

Laure Adler is a journalist and historian, the author of works on the condition of women: À l’aube du féminisme : les premières journalistes (At the dawn of feminism: the first women journalists), her first publication, and then several works on bourgeois women, working women and prostitutes in the 19th century. She has also written three biographies, of Marguerite Duras, Hannah Arendt and SimoneWeil; and a fourth, set for release in early 2011, devoted to Françoise Giroud.

Dominique Issermann is a portraitist who works primarily in fashion and advertising. She has contributed to prestigious magazines such as Vogue, Elle and US Cosmopolitan, along with the New York Times, Corriere Della Sera and Le Monde fashion supplements. She has received a major fashion photography award for her work. She mostly photographs women.

THE COLLECTION

Since 1994, Louis Vuitton and La Quinzaine Littéraire have been publishing works on the subject of travel. The “Voyager avec” collection published the 28th title of its catalogue this year. Marguerite Duras thus follows Tournier, Le Corbusier, Yourcenar, Beauvoir, Simenon, James, Marx, Benjamin, K Dick, Larbaud, Magris, Proust, Woolf and many others. Each book presents a new literary voyage off the beaten track on the trail of famous authors. This original slant is clearly supported by Maurice Nadeau, key figure of French publishing:
“For Louis Vuitton and La Quinzaine Littéraire, the publishers of this collection, travel is slightly more than what it originally was. We are sometimes a long way from the conditioned tourist, the sales representative for whom travelling from one place to another is a necessity, the businessperson in his jet cabin or the explorer, not to mention our friend the idler, sometimes it is a long way from these happy mortals to writers. Not that the writer is superior in essence. He is simply different.”

Author: Marguerite Duras
Title: La Beauté des Nuits du Monde
Collection: Voyager avec…
Publisher: Louis Vuitton and La Quinzaine Littéraire
Pages: 216
Retail price: 26 euros
In stores: 4 November 2010
N° ISBN : 978-2-910 491-27-7