Abstract Representations of the hostile, uninhabitable, and threatening land haunt all of the novels of Marguerite Duras' Indochina cycle. The literal and symbolic importance of natural disasters is already noticeable in The Sea Wall (Un barrage contre le Pacifique), the first novel of the cycle. This article argues that the diegetic space in The Sea Wall is inscribed on a land where various forces intertwine to create a turbulent and uninhabitable territory, where living is nothing but surviving. The protagonists adopt various mechanisms in order to leave their trace in a space that rejects them systematically and that is invaded from all directions: on a horizontal axis by the waves of the Pacific, and on a vertical axis by laws of the colonial cadaster. Having no other capital to invest in the economy of the space (dominated by monetary exchange), the deprived small settlers resort to a last pledge that would guarantee their survival: their bodies, which merge with the space they claim and who are simultaneously colonizers and colonized.

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和平国际之战：殖民地与殖民地之间的殖民地和平行动

摘要玛格丽特·杜拉斯（Marguerite Duras）的印度支那循环的所有小说都充满着敌对，无法居住和威胁土地的表现。自然灾害的字面意义和象征意义已经在该周期的第一本小说《防波堤》中引起了人们的注意。本文认为，《海堤》中的营养空间被刻在一块土地上，那里各种力量交织在一起，形成了一个动荡而无法居住的领土，那里的生活不过是生存而已。主角采取各种机制，以便将其踪迹留在一个有系统地拒绝它们的空间中，并从各个方向进行入侵：在水平轴上是太平洋海浪，在垂直轴上是殖民地籍定律。