Books set in Neauphle-le-Château, France

The village west of Paris where Duras bought a house in 1958 and wrote, alone, through the decades that followed.

1 place, 2 books,

1993
Writing
Écrire
1993 · Marguerite Duras · essay
Duras on writing alone in her Neauphle house: the solitude, a dying fly, the books.
1977
Les Lieux de Marguerite Duras
1977 · Marguerite Duras and Michelle Porte · memoiralso Trouville, Paris
Duras talks through her places: the Neauphle house, Trouville’s Roches Noires, Paris.

Updated October 2026

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