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Brutal as a goat, innocent as a flower, soft like a cat
… wrote the Resistance fighter and author Claude Roy about his young comrade at arms Marguerite in the wartime 1940’s. All the three indispensable qualities for a soldier, but maybe also for this writer at her fiery pen. When you see the 216 portraits (yes: two hundred and sixteen) in the magnificient double volume ”MD” published by the Jewish Theatre in 2007 for the exhibition of her work, and the world première of her play, The Dogs in Prague, you can see that Roy does not exaggerate.
The last pages of the volume display them all as a map of a life, MD was born in 1914 and her work spreads from combat prose to lyrical dramas from 1943 to 1988, in all 47 literary works, 19 films and 6 theatre plays, by my count. Not only did she succeed to wander through the most varied themes and scenes, from colonial Indo-China, the enchanted garden of her childhood, to the rough backyards of post-war France, she also knew how to swing from the burning passions of L’amant to the bitter human and political deceptions of the Prague piece.
”Through all her work echoes the tragedies she has witnessed: Indo-China under the Colonialism, the crimes of the Second World war – Auschwitz, the bloody lies of Communism, the plundering of the Third World, the misery of oppressed classes and immigrant workers”, writes Claire Cerasi.
This indispensable photo book, concieved by the Theatre’s Director Pia Forsgren and brilliantly designed by Anders Wester, is backed up by an anthological sister-volume, assembling 39 essays by herself and central commentators of her work like Edgar Morin, Laure Adler, Katarina Frostenson and Michel Foucault. Considering this photographic and literary mapping of all aspects of the writer’s expressions, you are tempted to quote Duras’ beloved compatriot, poet Paul Verlaine: Madame, votre âme est un paysage exquise.
… wrote the Resistance fighter and author Claude Roy about his young comrade at arms Marguerite in the wartime 1940’s. All the three indispensable qualities for a soldier, but maybe also for this writer at her fiery pen. When you see the 216 portraits (yes: two hundred and sixteen) in the magnificient double volume ”MD” published by the Jewish Theatre in 2007 for the exhibition of her work, and the world première of her play, The Dogs in Prague, you can see that Roy does not exaggerate.
The last pages of the volume display them all as a map of a life, MD was born in 1914 and her work spreads from combat prose to lyrical dramas from 1943 to 1988, in all 47 literary works, 19 films and 6 theatre plays, by my count. Not only did she succeed to wander through the most varied themes and scenes, from colonial Indo-China, the enchanted garden of her childhood, to the rough backyards of post-war France, she also knew how to swing from the burning passions of L’amant to the bitter human and political deceptions of the Prague piece.
”Through all her work echoes the tragedies she has witnessed: Indo-China under the Colonialism, the crimes of the Second World war – Auschwitz, the bloody lies of Communism, the plundering of the Third World, the misery of oppressed classes and immigrant workers”, writes Claire Cerasi.
This indispensable photo book, concieved by the Theatre’s Director Pia Forsgren and brilliantly designed by Anders Wester, is backed up by an anthological sister-volume, assembling 39 essays by herself and central commentators of her work like Edgar Morin, Laure Adler, Katarina Frostenson and Michel Foucault. Considering this photographic and literary mapping of all aspects of the writer’s expressions, you are tempted to quote Duras’ beloved compatriot, poet Paul Verlaine: Madame, votre âme est un paysage exquise.