Abstract: Benjamin Jordane’s universe constitutes a sort of model which refracts literary concerns in a ludic manner. The essentialist dimension of the character is supported by a staging of the self, in which the reader is invited to distinguish between truth and lie, fiction and fancy. Much as Christian theology proclaims the dual nature of Christ, Puech affirms in Jordane, with a smile, the dual nature of literary activity, between self-denial and the full incarnation of the writer.
