DURAS Marguerite (1914-1996) Signed typescript... Lot 41

DURAS Marguerite (1914-1996) Signed typescript with many autograph corrections and additions. Circa 1973. 4 pages in-4 on paper. Original text of an article published in an issue of "Ciné-Club - Special 1973 - Saint Raphaël" where it was printed, in its final version, under the title Le Cinéaste, c'est un spectateur, whereas Marguerite Duras would have preferred L'endroit du film ? ou: An Evening in Le Havre. The numerous erasures and corrections make this typescript a partly unpublished document. Based on the account of a pre-war witness from a pre-war evening at the cinema, the writer notes how much the spectators have changed: "[...] They have been taught film syntax and grammar. They were taught the syntax of film, its grammar. They were taught how to SEE in pictures.... Nevertheless, the spectator still sometimes participates in this primitive, wild seeing... Cinema is made by the spectator. Much more than a book, the reader... The work of a filmmaker in a film... is situated in a different place from the place where a writer who is making a book stands [...]". Finally, on the difference between an author and a filmmaker, Duras writes: "When I write, I stand in front of the book that is to be made. When I make a film I am behind the film to be made".