Description: Originally published in France as Le Camion by Les âEditions de Minuit, 1977.
Brief description: French novelist, screenwriter, scenarist, playwright, and film director, internationally known for her screenplays of Hiroshima mon amour (1959) and India Song (1975). The novel L'Amant (1984; The Lover; film, 1992) won the prestigious Prix Goncourt in 1984.
Review Quotes:
"Le camion is . . . uncompromising. [It] lets the text come through but also carries it." - Jean-Luc Godard
"For Duras, this situation [of Le camion] represents our modern condition: en route to who knows where, crossing desolate lands, with no other destination, perhaps, than the end of the world [...]. This text from 1977 is entirely relevant almost half a century later." - Jean-Luc Nancy