The Malady of Death by Marguerite Duras

Author:Marguerite Duras
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub, azw3
Tags: Literary, Marguerite, Duras, Translations, Fiction, Fiction - General, Erotic Fiction, English, General
ISBN: 9780802130365
Publisher: Grove Press
Published: 1988-09-15T21:03:44.770000+00:00

You come back into the room. She hasn't moved in the white expanse of the sheets. You look at her whom you've never approached, ever, either through others like her or through herself.

You look at the shape suspected through the ages. You give up.

You stop looking. Stop looking at anything. You shut your eyes so as to get back into your difference, your death.

When you open your eyes she's still there. Still there.

You go back towards the alien body. It's sleeping.

You look at the malady of your life, the malady of death. It's on her, on her sleeping body, that you look at it. You look at the different places on the body, at the face, the breasts, the mingled site of the sex.

You look at where the heart is. The beat seems different, more distant. The word occurs to you: more alien. It's regular, it seems as if it would never stop. You bring your body close to the object that is her body. It's warm, moist. She's still alive. While she lives she invites murder. You wonder how to kill her and who will. You don't love anything or anyone, you don't even love the difference you think you embody. All you know is the grace of the bodies of the dead, the grace of those like yourself. Suddenly you see the difference between the grace of the bodies of the dead and this grace here, this royalty, made of utmost weakness, which could be crushed by the merest gesture.

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