Significantly one of her last works, Writing is celebrated French novelist, screenwriter, and filmmaker Marguerite Duras’s mediation on why writing was essential for her, and why solitude was a key component of her process. Written in a bare, stream-of-consciousness style, these five essays are masterful. Duras compares the process of developing style to a dying fly in this stunning, nearly confessional work of writing from one of the most dynamic writers of the 20th century.