M. Duras, whose writing is reported to the principles of the new French novel, published in 1985, one of the most exciting books about the experience of the Second World War. The author confesses that “The Pain”, a collection of six stories, is “one of the most important things” in her life. In Duras’ texts nobody dies, everything struggles not between life and death, but in the omnipresent environment of the death created by the war, in which the main aims are to resist, to keep the same form, the beings cling and let to be carried by the life forces, often monstrous, those who create this constant state of pain.