1914. Duras, Marguerite was born in Indo-China

1932. Duras left Indo-China to study in Paris

1939. Duras married to her first husband Robert Antelme

1942. She married to her second husband Dionys Mascolo

She published her first novel, Les Impudents

1944. She published La Vie trangquille

1950. She published Un Barrage Contre Le Pacifique an autobiographical novel strongly evoking Indo-China and drawing on the flood disaster of her childhood

1952. She published Marin de Gibraltar
1953. She published Les Retits Chevaux de Tarquinia

1855. She published Le Square

1958. She published *Moderato Cantabile, which firmly established her literary reputation
1959. She was approached to write a film scenario; Hiroshima mon amour, was a great success and was to open up new directions in her work

 

1960. Her first play, Les Viaducs de la Seine-et-Oise dealing with the psychological enigma of a macabre crime

1964. Le Ravissement de Lol V. Stein, another work which can be considered a turning point, presents, in a skeletal script, the case of Lol, whose mental balance is disturbed when her for Anne-Marie Stretter.

1966. Le Vice-Consul opens up an enigmatic cycle of linked works, in which both Anne-

Marie Stretter and an apparently unrelated beggar-woman figure

1967. Lll'Amante anglaise, an example of the way in which Duras increasingly reworks

material in different narrative form

 

1968. The three were published together as Theatre I; a second volume of plays,

including Suqanna Andler, was published as Theatre II

1969. Detruire, dit-elle pits the sub-sverive force of desire against conventional attitudes

1971. L' Amour, one of Duras's most hermetic texts
1972. Nathalie Granger (text and film) link the violence of the young to their

frustrations, and has a strong feminist element

1973. India Song, both a text and a celebrated innovatory film, which takes up the same

narrative with a different ending

1974. Les Parleuse, a dialogue between Duras and Xaviere Gauthier, is Duras' most

overtly feminist text

1977. L'Eden cinema adapts for the stage her novel of 1950, Uin barrage contre le Pacifigue
1978. Le Native Night, the account of a Passion lived entirely over the telephone is film
1979. Le Native Night, the account of a passion lived entirely over the telephone is text

1984. She won the Prix Goncourt, France's most prestiqious literary prize for her nover, L'Amant (The Lover)