The paper focuses on several fictional feminine identities in the novels of Marguerite Duras, a twentieth-century woman writer who acquired the reputation of a genuine revolutionary voice of the French literature. Her writings have influenced both the evolution of the cultural mentalities of her time and the novelistic discourse, owing particularly to an excellent mutatis mutandis essay well received by the critics. The fictional feminine identities here under discussion carry significant ‘connotations’: the child-woman, the mother, the intruder, the abandoned woman. The novels in which these fictional constructions appear are: L’Amant, Un Barrage contre le Pacifique, Le Ravissement de Lol V. Stein, Moderato Cantabile, Le Vice-consul.