Description
Convalescing in a rural French hotel, Elisabeth Alione becomes the center of a charged encounter when two men and another woman arrive, turning polite conversation into something sharper, stranger, and increasingly destabilizing. As their relationships shift through desire, power, and performance-like gestures, the story explores how language can wound, how intimacy can be staged, and how political and emotional forces collide in the private space of a room. With its spare, confrontational intensity, the work reflects Marguerite Duras’s distinctive style—economical yet volatile, where what is withheld can feel louder than what is said. “Destroy, She Said” builds toward a radical reckoning, using interpersonal drama to probe themes of control, complicity, and the unsettling mechanics of human connection.
Available Editions
paperback
Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated
Published Jan 1, 2015
93 pages
ISBN: 9780802190574
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Details
First Published
2015
Language
fra
Translation
From: fra
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for Destroy, She Said by Marguerite Duras.