MARGUERITE DURAS ÖZEL BÖLÜMÜ (III)

Abstract

In the work entitled The Lover, initially dealing with the concept of time, the boundaries of the past, present and future on the East-West axis are blurred. As Bergson states, time, which is chronologically indivisible, is not simply the act of existence of a duration, but rather a complex set of intertwined abstract realities and changes formulated within the human conscious and sole. Time registered through the conscience and the soul exceeds the boundaries of reality and is abstract, immeasurable and subjective. It is also a simultaneous duration without concrete boundaries which is active, erratic, and ever-changing. Within this period, the chronological pieces of time, everything and events are intertwined within separate spaces or the same space. In this duration, the chronological slices of time, everything else and events are synchronously embedded within each other in the same space and different spaces. This embeddedness is such that it overshadows and encompasses the air, love with a passion, the environment in which it is set, and every chronological event and tangible space depicted. Thus, with their emotions, anxieties, loves and passions, the narrator and the actors create, in a sense, their own twins or doppelgangers. These are reformed in fiction with the photographic and topographic scenes of the East as an ulterior decor.