Marguerite Duras was one of the leading intellectuals and novelists of post-war France. Throughout her life this astonishing woman never ceased to attract national and international fame. She owed her success to her obstinacy to be and remain herself, come what may and at whatever cost to her own person.Her notebooks retrace the formative experiences in Duras' life: her childhood in Indochina and, in wartime, her harrowing wait for her husband's return from a concentration camp.