This article studies the connection between textual genetics and Ricœur’s work in a double perspective. On the one hand we will show the convergences and divergences between critical genetics and Ricœur’s hermeneutics of the text: If the main crossing point resides in the identification between writing and creation, divergences however are ascribable to the different notions of the text, on which Ricœur and critical genetics rely. On the other hand, this article focuses on the specificity of Ricœur’s works from a genetic standpoint: The hallmark of Ricœur’s philosophical writing is to be found in the draft’s anchoring in an extraordinary pre-editorial documentation. This writing style reflects in turn the “long run” that constitutes in particular the distinctive features of Ricœur’s hermeneutics compared to Gadamer’s.