In Marguerite Duras's La Douleur and Hiroshima mon amour, Sarah Kofman's Rue Ordener rue Labat and Hélène Cixous's Gare d'Osnabrück à Jérusalem, women attest to wartime experiences of both shame and defiance as a consequence of acts of infidelity—and fidelity—that extend far beyond the sexual or romantic sphere.