L'home que seu al passadís

For Duras, literature must address everything that is forbidden, that is uncomfortable, everything that is unbearable and scandalous, as the writer is with his life.
The man who sits in the hallway is surely his most misunderstood and also the most radical work. Very brief, sensual and elliptical, it shows the imbalances of the most evil desire, as well as the attempts to give it a way out, which never becomes such.
A man sits in the dark of a hallway and a woman is lying in the sunbathe, a few steps from him, in front of him, abandoned in an Asian landscape.
This book is trying to get drunk.

Marguerite Duras (Gia Định, 1914-Paris, 1996) is one of the most influential European writers and filmmakers of the second half of the 20th century. With fifty-six books —among novels, journalistic collections and plays—, nineteen films and a dozen film scripts, as well as a vast production in the television field, scarcely known, Duras maintains its status as a cult author, although at the same time, especially in France, it continues to be a true popular icon. [Valentín Roma]