Marguerite Duras and the Bible : a priori, it might be surprising establishinga relationship between both. Why should an unbeliever refer to the Bible ? Therefore it seems paradoxical to find biblical elements in an unbeliever's writing. In actual fact, however, although the Bible is often perceived as the book of Christians, it is a work that belongs to the world cultural heritage. It has nourished the imagination and the tought of a goodnumber of authors from western world. It is, indeed, an inexhaustible source for writers. Marguerite Duras's texts are to be taken within an intertextual framework. In her writings, many allusions to the Bible may be found, whether explicit or implicit, voluntary or unconscious. Whitout the reders being aware of it at the first sight, Duras' works are indeed in dialogue with the Bible. They reveal the Christian culture of the writer because of the presence of many references, knowledge, and values taken from Christian root and found in her writings. Besides, author's anticlerical criticism lead us to wonder about the way the teaching of the Church is perceived in her works. Duras is in fact an author that questions the Church as a temporal power.
