Le journalisme subjectif de Marguerite Duras, à mi-chemin de l’Histoire et de la fiction

Abstract

The famous writer, the signature of the autobiographical pact (Lejeune, 1997), even of a subjective pact with the History, Marguerite Duras sets herself up as in the posture of journalist and writes an article of scandal about the case Grégory in 1985, for the French newspaper Libération. It is a question about an article focusing the attention on a presumed infanticide mother, Christine Villemin, whose murderous gesture bowled over France at that time. Duras reconstitutes and rebuilds the History strating from a subjective present, autofictional, and even mythical one. Our paper approaches the concept of ''subjective journalism'' and proposes an analysis of the limits, objects of disputes and of various reactions referring to this new concept in context of the 80s in France. This pact that Duras concludes with the History and the Fiction on the scene of the journalism relates to some risks for a writer tempted by the adventure of the language, who always liked to mix up the limits between the Real and the Fictional, supporting a new use of the literature and in all her time introducing herself as a fervent supporter of the feminist condition in society.