In this paper I examine the remarks around “Stress”, a tale retrieved from the book Os olhos da cobra verde (1997), by Lília Momplé, a Mozambican writer. In this narrative, Momplé presents the story of characters who, as a consequence of the civil war in Mozambique, are changing, being represented, at the same time, as victims and tormentors . The analysis of the narrative strategies used by Momplé to represent a violence that strip the characters constitutes the focus of our investigation.
