In the contemporary era, the adoption of a filigree discourse that enables both aesthetic and ethical restructuring is a phenomenon that presupposes the overturning of the traditional conventions of the representative genre of letters. The novel fights against the alienation of the reader and the transcendence of analyses dictated by an author-demiurge. Nouveau Roman figurehead Nathalie Sarraute's relationship with language is marked by strategies of detour and contour. The lability of sensations breathes out speech, while undermining the linearity of texts. Subjectivity, temporality and space are the cornerstones of this rebellious genre, which bears witness to a wandering that affects both narrative and characters.