Agatha (Minuit)

by Marguerite Duras

Las voces de dos hermanos –ella y él– nos introducen progresivamente en el terreno de lo inconfesable, esas arenas movedizas que sustentan la obra literaria de la excepcional autora francesa.

Genres: Plays, France, Theatre, French Literature

67 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published March 1, 1981

About the author

Marguerite Germaine Marie Donnadieu , known as Marguerite Duras, was a French novelist, playwright, screenwriter, essayist, and experimental filmmaker. Her script for the film Hiroshima mon amour (1959) earned her a nomination for Best Original Screenplay at the Academy Awards.

Reviews

[Luís · Rating 3 out of 5]

All of Duras's novels are disturbing. With their simple but infinitely evocative sentences and soul-striking repetitions, the words of the great Marguerite touch something profound inside us; they scratch and tickle somewhere in them eminently. They are intimate, and in this, they sometimes feel badly closed wounds or taboo and unformulated desires.
Of all her novels, "Agatha" is, however, the one that troubled me the most, embarrassed me, and disgusted me the most ... No doubt because it is about incest, the taboo of taboos. Still, if 'I appreciated the style and if I perceived its grandeur, I did not really like this novel, and I closed it with pleasure, happy to have come out of it ... It is one of those stories that we are pleased to get rid of, how glad we are, when we wake up from a nightmare, to realize that we are alive and that it was just a bad dream.

[Nathália · Rating 4 out of 5]

Ooof, all that transgressive passion… I’ll take it!

[Cláudia Monteiro · Rating 4 out of 5]

A wonderful little play.
Incredibly intimate and utterly heartbreaking.

[Elodie · Rating 3 out of 5]

Les petits livres usagés ont bien des surprises, je les aimerais encore plus si les petites surprises n'étaient pas de l'inceste.

[Marieke · Rating 4 out of 5]

Lovely little play with little to no action but a delicate dialogue between two lovers. Themes of reminiscence and the blurry lines around that which is forbidden. Think it is better read as a little novel of poetic prose than performed as a play.

[Marleen · Rating 4 out of 5]

Bevreemdende taal, verontrustend. Er wordt heel vaak ‘ja’ in gezegd en dat is fijn.

[Lau · Rating 2 out of 5]

Je suis perplexe

[Heidi · Rating 3 out of 5]

Ei ollu mun kuppi teetä tämä, mutta ajatella, että joskus on julkaistu tällaisiakin näytelmiä kirjoina suomeksi käännettynä. Esipuheessa suomentaja Jussi Lehtonen kertoo vieläpä, että tekstiä on vähän muokattu, jotta sitä on kiva lukea. Niinpä, ei tämä ole plari, vaan kirja.

[Lashoun · Rating 3 out of 5]

La plume est belle et le texte très évocateur, mais tout cela manque de sel. Les images m'ont happé pendant ma lecture mais je suis resté comme un observateur lointain de cette pellicule du souvenir.

[willow :) · Rating 5 out of 5]

the most heartbreaking and beautiful love i have ever read and its incest

[malinka · Rating 2 out of 5]

Le livre > le film.

Pas trop aimé cette manière d'aborder une relation incestueuse.

[Noah · Rating 3 out of 5]

ai regardé Agatha et les lectures illimitées

[emzara emzarić · Rating 5 out of 5]

tamo na moru bilo bi nam oprošteno

[Catherine]

M’est venue alors j’y suis allée.

[Julia Brunet · Rating 3 out of 5]

Une lecture qui m'a laissée très perplexe, l'histoire d'amour est belle et bien écrite mais j'ai eu du mal à passer outre le fait que ce soit une relation entre frère et sœur.

[Daniel Ortega · Rating 5 out of 5]

Drama minimalista y existencialista en pocos actos.

[Lia · Rating 4 out of 5]

vihdoin! sain aikaseks lukee tän klassikko teoksen. ja kyllä oli muuten mieletön kokemus! aivan huikee teos josta tykkäsin kyllä tosi paljon✨
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oon pitkään jo halunnu lukee näytelmii enemmän ja tää sai mut taas muistamaan et miks. agatha on mielettömän intensiivinen ja vaiks tavallaan siin ei tapahdu mitään jos ajattelee ton lavalle niin tulee niin sellanen fiilis et haluis nähä tän teoksen lavalla!🎭
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kaikki tää tunne ja ilmapiiri mikä näiden kansien sisäl on, on jotenki niin käsinkosketeltavaa ja mystistä ja tummaa ja hienostunutta ja vaarallista ja intensiivistä!

[Luís Corujo · Rating 4 out of 5]

Emocionalmente duro, muito forte

[Fedu · Rating 4 out of 5]

Lo bueno de no leer la parte de atrás de un libro es la sorpresa al comenzar la lectura.

[Ana · Rating 4 out of 5]

uma peça sobre a partida como a única saída perante a impossibilidade de ficar.

[Muneera Salem-Murdock · Rating 4 out of 5]

I have owned this book for at least ten years, perhaps much longer. Even though I had read several of Duras' books and really enjoyed them (Hiroshima mon amour, le Vice-Consul, La doubler, Les petits chevaux de Tarquinea), for some reason, I have not read this till now. Once I started reading it (it is a play; very short), I could not put it down. The dialogue is amazing. I had to read it aloud, at times! It is also troubling as it deals with incest: a brother and a younger sister. And I just realized that it was made into a film directed and screen-written by Duras herself. Interesting, Yann Andréa, the young man with whom she lived for about 16 years (on and off till her death, as I recall) is in it. I have not watched yet but it is available on You Tube so I'm planning to do so.