This is a psychoanalytic approach to literature, or rather creative writers of major schemes such as Cervantes, Balzac and Flaubert. Starting from a text of Freud entitled "The family romance of neurotics", it distinguishes two ways of composing a novel: "the realistic bastard, assisting the world while striker front, and that of the foundling who, for lack of knowledge and means of action, ducking the fight by flight or sulking. "(Robert) A book that reads very easily.