Please answer two questions or come up with your own topics for discussion.
1. Describe the piano lesson that we find in the first chapter. What role do these three people take (the child, the teacher, and Anne)? How does Duras’ style help in creating this first scene? Try to give precise examples from the text.
2. The scream interrupts the lesson – what role does this scream play? Is there a link between the scream (or screaming) and music? Speak about the scream as it is interpreted in this first chapter – describe the reaction of Anne and the others.
3. After discovering the source of this scream (the murder of a woman), try to analyze it. Why do you think it is from a woman who has been killed and is now dead? What is Anne’s reaction to this? Why?
4. After finishing Chapter 2, why do you think Duras begins the novel by giving us a “musical opening”? In what sense is this musical opening a “primal scene” (scene of initial trauma)?
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