Prze-pisywanie siebie według Marguerite Duras: „Kochanek” (1984) opowiedziany na nowo w „Kochanku z Północnych Chin” (1991)

Abstract

According to Milan Kundera, rewriting embodies the spirit of our times. Marguerite Duras’s rewritten narratives confirm the accuracy of this statement. In my intertextual analysis of L’Amant de la Chine du Nord I demonstrate that rewriting offers an optimal narrative space to accommodate feminist and postcolonial discourses. We should not lose sight of the fact that these two categories have recently been, and still are, at the centre of most sociocultural debates. As for the technicalities of rewriting, I prove that, in Julie Sanders’ terms, durassian novel represents an intersection of ‘adaptation’ and ‘appropriation’, which is a very uncommon situation for a rewritten piece of literature.