Theatrical composition and irony in Le Square

The genre destruction of modern novels has had a positive effect on the expansion of cultural contents and the broadening of readers' imagination and understanding of literary works. Among the representative writers, Marguerite Duras is considered to have played a pioneering role. In the midst of introducing the components of the play and borrowing the expression method from the novel, the oral effect of irony is said to be multiplied. The narration method containing the expression of irony that reveals the truth in an indirect way shows the artist's wish to communicate the truth inherent behind superficial facts. The author's intention to reveal the truth hidden behind superficial facts is sometimes expressed in the author's narrative style, which contains the expression of irony that alludes the truth in a detour. In Duras' novels, we frequently encounter expressions of irony that connote semantic distances, both structurally and contextually. First of all, if we come to review it structurally, we can find the irony in Duras's work in the structure, the silence and the incomplete ending at the beginning and the end. Among Duras's works, we will analyze Le Square, which presents the intersection of a character's hope and reality, and examine the irony of its structural organization and semantic distances. Then, if we examine each sentence in detail, we can recognize the irony through the distance of meaning formulated in context. The expression of irony, in the structural composition and through the context, is one of the pathways to approach the truth that the author is trying to convey.