Abstract
Marguerite Duras was born near Saigon in Indochina in 1914. Her parents went to the French colony as teachers. She left Indonesia in 1932 to study political science and law in Paris. His childhood in Indonesia had a great impact on Duras and brought unity to her work. As she was living in Paris when the Second World War broke out, she faced up the occupation of France by the German army. She became a Resistant in 1943 after she met Francois Mitterrand. Her husband, who was also a Resistant, was sent to a concentration camp. The story of her book, "The War", takes place at the end of the war and the beginning of the liberation. Actually, it is a journal she wrote during the wait of her husband's return. Marguerite Duras told us that she could not remember when she wrote it. She pretended to have lost it and to have found it again in her secondary house. We do not know if it is true, if she really lost her journal of if she wrote it later. But the story in the book is true and that is the main interest. It was published in 1985. "The war" is very interesting mainly because it is a testimony. It is also very well written. In reading this book we can feel a great emotion.
