the Disease of dead the is a Romance of Marguerite Duras published in 1982 with the Editions of Midnight.

Summary

A man pays a woman so that, during several days, it lengthens naked in a bed, a room vis-a-vis the Black Sea and subjects himself. He will try to like. It does it, he looks at it sleeping, will touch it, sleep and cry against it. Then it asks him questions which he answers only briefly. She says to him that it is reached disease of death, that she had recognized it as of the beginning. At the end of several nights, he even cries over him and she manages to make him say that it is because he does not like. She says to him not to cry more over him even. Little by little, it takes control, but without appearing to want it, as if it left him little by little control. Then, one day, it does not return any more and will never return.