Texte intégral accessible uniquement aux membres de l'Université de LorraineOur study shows how the death stands out as major subject, and original creative principle of Marguerite Duras's romantic universe. The death indeed joins in the continuity of the life, all the progress of the narrative is guided, even precipitated towards the topic of the end. The durassienne work testifies of the loss of the sense. The scandal that represent all the scenes of the death (wars, genocides, suicides, old ages,...) is at the origin of the literary creation of Marguerite Duras, it generally fulfils a curative and therapeutic function. Thus, various employment that Marguerite makes of term "death" or of its synonyms, allow to see that she never speaks ab...