marguerite duras

The Persistence of Memory
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The Persistence of Memory

What undergirds the aesthetics of violence? To what do we ascribe the desire to mark, interrupt, violate those whose beauty we find, as Duras does above "too much?" And does the object of violence need beauty for violence to be bestowed upon it? Is violence a state of mind for the bearer of it, or i
perfect images, written photographs and the absolute
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perfect images, written photographs and the absolute

I have come and come again to Hérve Guibert, Roland Barthes and Marguerite Duras, who all have much to say about memory, regret, experience and selfhood. All of them go to great effort to articulate a particular lost moment, and what losing that moment does to their memory of it, and of themselves.