Lugares perpassados: música e loucura como paradigmas da escrita no imaginário material de Marguerite Duras

In a book elaborated from interviews given by Marguerite Duras to Michelle Porte, Les Lieux de Marguerite Duras (1977), published in a moment of Duras’s trajectory in which she is mainly dedicated to making films, the French author proposes a series of figures that constitute a kind of a personal mythology, in a process that can be recognized as similar to what Gaston Bachelard (2001b) called “material imagination”. This set of image-signs reappears with relative stability all along Duras’s work, and this allows the writer to refer to some of her works whose dates of publication are quite distant in time, but with some shared elements to which she gives a formulation. In this context, the mythical invention of female writing is closely related to notions such as music and madness, which are shown as imaginary paradigms of a poetics of porosity. A close reading of Duras & Porte’s book will allow to reveal the conceptual network that interweaves these formulations and to illuminate some central aspects of Duras’s poetics.