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  • Chapter 5 - Media Crimes

  • Anne Brancky, Vassar College, New York
  • Book:
    The Crimes of Marguerite Duras
    Published online:
    09 June 2020
    Print publication:
    09 July 2020, pp 158-184

  • Summary

    Chapter 5 studies one particularly famous and controversial rewriting of a fait divers in Libération in 1985: “Sublime, forcément sublime Christine V.” Here Duras rewrites a very famous, ongoing true crime case, transforming the suspect, Christine Villemin, into a prototypical Durassian heroine who kills her own son in revolt against a brutal, patriarchal order. Because of the way that Duras accuses (and absolves) the woman in public before her trial, and, significantly, because the media was saturated with images of the author during this time, the article caused a major scandal, and Duras became a sort of sensational fait divers in her own right.