The publication of novel manuscripts by Marguerite Duras in 2006, Les Cahiers de la War and other texts, at the same time as highlighting the process of literary creation on the part of that author, one day to shed light on the generic affiliation of the text published in 1984, which will award him the Goncourt Prize, L’Amant. The first specification, the marbled pink book, also makes it possible to reflect on the complex relationship between the novel of origins, the Roman of origin, a dam against the Pacific, L’Amant, presented by the author himself as a parliamentarian and the fictional work.