`titrebSummary`/titrebThe comparative reading of Jean Echenoz and Patrick Chamoiseau’s novels first addresses issuses such as the historic and esthetic concept of contemporary literature, the status of fiction and the novel as a genre in the current debates about the political dimension of literature. The article then analyzes the distinctive formal and rhetorical traits which characterize two recent poetics of the novel — the poetics of recuperation and the poetics of creolization — while also indexing their common features.