La Douleur is a collection of six texts by Marguerite Duras published in 1985. Two texts are invented: L'ortie brisée and Aurélia Paris. The remaining four texts are based on lived experience. In La Douleur, her husband becomes Robert L. and others also retain the names used as resistants.
Part of Marguerite Duras's autobiography with two wartime stories conveying life in Paris in the summer of 1944 and the late spring of 1945.
