Agatha
Savannah Bay
Two plays by
Marguerite Duras
Translated from the Frenchby Howard Limoli
The most absolute literary personality in France today has written here her most important and beautiful plays. Marguerite Duras' work, always autobiographical, always obsessive, is forever investigating the "mad love"—the love that possesses body and soul and that few among her heroines or heroes can survive.
.......a text more beautiful than ever, going deep, going further into the ambiguity which is one of the elements of the Duras fascination. An empty house, its walls bare, a window open on the winter sun, a deserted beach near by where no one will go. A brother and a sister, dressed in all the variations of the color white, are tearing themselves off from the impossible, telling each other, over and over, the devastating violence of their incestuous love, remembering, remembering...
—Alain Duault, Les Nouvelles
