Marguerite Duras

Yeah.

But now I mix it up in my head with another book by Marguerite Duras called The Sea Wall.

Yes.

In French, Un barrage contre le Pacifique.

I mean, you can really feel that.

It's really interesting.

But the thing that really struck me is that Marguerite Duras essentially renounced this novel.

Did she? Have you heard this? No.

[laughs]

But he, you know, writes this article saying that Robert Bresson has been, um, hit by a pie by the fictional George Gloupier, and then in the next issue Godin claimed, fictitiously, that one of Bresson's friends, the real, um, novelist Marguerite Duras, had avenged the cream pie attack by flaning Gloupier in Paris.

This of course had not happened.

But then Marguerite Duras actually came to Belgium and Godin thought, "Why not just press a real pie into her face?" This is in 1969.

And, um, afterwards he said, "She has a kind of intelligence and cleverness that serves only her vanity." I mentioned at the beginning that he inspired, um, a c- a collective of pie throwers across the world.

Mm.

I, I wanted to write a play.

I don't know, I just had this idea, "Okay, I'll write a play." And I, uh, adapted Marguerite Duras' book, Moderato Cantabile.

Mm.

Um, and it was voted the worst play of the Edinburgh Festival.