Restive about the religious speech, contemporary literature willingly borrows the mystical way, which is the writing of an interiority to find: the mystical path opens the way of the initiation and the self-revelation. Through a poetic of the trace, Opéra muet (Sylvie Germain) is structured around the problem of the image (idol-icon), shows difficulties of the mourning but also the fulfillment of this mourning, which is necessary for not breaking the thread of its own history.