Writing “the Aftermath of Events” The Silent Event of Bodies, Death and Desire in Marguerite Duras’ Les Petits Chevaux de Tarquinia

This article analyzes the writing of the "aftermath of events" in Marguerite Duras’ novel Les Petits Chevaux de Tarquinia. Between disappearance and appearance, fragments of bodies and writing, death and desire, Durasian writing invites us to experience absence and lack in order to express “the silent collapse of the world”.