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Susan Sontag , On Photography (London, 1979 ), 161.

Roland Barthes , Le Plaisir du texte (Paris, 1973), 98-9.

Marguerite Duras and Michelle Porte , Les Lieux de Marguerite Duras (Paris, 1975), 102

Sontag , op. cit, 154-5.

Roland Barthes , La Chambre claire (Paris, 1980 ), 77.

Sontag , op. cit, 24.

Jane Gallop , Feminism and Psychoanalysis: The Daughter's Seduction ( London, 1982), 58.

Luce Irigaray , Speculum de l'autre femme (Paris, 1974 ), 165.

Roland Barthes , Roland Barthes par Roland Barthes (Paris, 1975), 5-6.

Ibid, 40.

Peter Collier ,'Roland Barthes: the critical subject (an idea for research'. Paragraph, Vol. 2 (1988), 175-80.

Ibid., 165.

Ibid., 28.

Marguerite Duras , La Vie matérielle ( Paris , 1987), 113.

Marguerite Duras , Michelle Porte, Les Lieux de Marguerite Duras (Paris, 1977), 46.

Trista Selous , The Other Woman: Feminism and Femininity in the works of Marguerite Duras (New Haven and London ,1988), 200.

See Susan D. Cohen in Women and Discourse in the Fiction of Marguerite Duras (London, 1993) for a more comprehensive argument on the status of the imaginary photo in L'Amant.

Ibid, 27.