It’s no secret that Marguerite Duras is one of my favorite contemporary authors. As with Alain Robbe-Grillet, Duras was influential in bringing a new vitality to the novel form. Look at her bibliography (from Wikipedia):
Les Impudents, Plon, 1943- La Vie tranquille, Gallimard, 1944.
- Un barrage contre le Pacifique, Gallimard, 1950 (tr. The Sea Wall, 1967)
- Le Marin de Gibraltar, Gallimard, 1952 (tr. The Sailor from Gibraltar, 1966)
- Les petits chevaux de Tarquinia, Gallimard, 1953 (tr. The Little Horses of Tarquinia, 1960)
- Des journées entières dans les arbres, “Le Boa”, “Madame Dodin”, “Les Chantiers”, Gallimard, 1954 (tr. Whole Days in the Trees, 1984)
A Celebration of Reading 