Between worlds. Russian childhoods, 1900-05
Between Petersburg and Paris, 1905-12
Schooldays, 1912-18
England, 1919-21
Berlin, 1921-22
Pierre Janet's patient, 1922-23
Tentative beginnings, 1922-44. Independence, 1922-25
Raymond
Coming of age with Modernism, 1923-25
Marriage and motherhood, 1925-33
The first tropism, 1932-34
A pause, 1934-37
Publication, 1938-39
Jewish by decree, 1939-1942
In hiding, 1942-1944
Ambivalent Allegiances, 1944-58. Sartre, Beauvoir, and Saint-Germain-des-Prés, 1944-47
The elephant's child, 1947-49
New horizons, 1949-53
A Gallimard author, 1953-56
The nouveau roman, 1956-58
Golden fruits, 1959-70. "One of the great novelists of our time," 1959-62
Nathalie abroad, 1959-64
A reading public, 1963-66
Friendships
"The heroine of post-Stalin Russia," 1960-67
Radio plays, 1962-72
The writing life
Revolution and May 68
Israel, 1969
On her own terms, 1970-99. The demise and afterlife of the nouveau roman, 1970-82
Plays on stage, 197288
A life and a death, 1983-89
The last decade, 1990-99.