Lol V. Stein saw the humiliation with great pain and dark in the "madness".
Yet this "change" in the behavior of Michael Richardson, by Lol V. Stein noticed upon opening the ball, looks lived by it "without suffering." Tatiana Karl, Lol former classmate at the time of college, while on the premises, reports that "this vision and this certainty did not seem to be accompanied with pain Lol [...] The night advanced, it appeared that Lol chances would have had to suffer were still scarce, that suffering had not found where it slip, she had forgotten the old algebra of heartbreak. "
However, several witnesses, besides that of Tatiana, and collected by Jacques Hold, the narrator, overlapping to confirm that after this first phase of emotional void, Lol V. Stein was "marked by signs of suffering [. ..] She always said the same things: that DST wrong, it was not by [...] She was bored, screaming. "
Some years pass: Lola V. Stein returned healed S. Tahla, in the city of his childhood; she is married to Jean Bedford and has three children, but his heart is in love with Jacques Hold, lover Tatiana Karl. It observes the couple from the park of the Hotel des Bois, it follows the narrator in the streets of S. Tahla. A new love is born between these two beings, a new passion that can still erase the memory of Michael Richardson in the memory of Lol V. Stein and torque ("I am the man of S. Tahla she decided . We are pegged to follow together [...] We repeat our names [...] I became awkward When my hands rest on Lol the memory of a dead stranger comes to me. it will serve the eternal Richardson, the man T. Beach, it will mix with him ... ")
Polyphonic narrative, "The Ravishing of Lol Stein" plunges the reader into the story of a passion underpinned by various testimonies, mainly the narrator and the character of Tatiana Karl. The genius of Marguerite Duras thus appears to lie in the art of composite portrait, through which the author gives to see in the character of Lola Valerie Stein pathetic heroine, even tragic, but a heroine who still can laugh like no other, philosopher, giving joy the aesthetic and moral values of a pure delight ("Lol laugh [...] His laughter can not stop.")
