The works of Aragon and Ponge, major figures of 20th century literature, are the subject of this first systematic confrontation The reflection focuses on a relationship to language, to the revolutionary and perhaps, beyond supposed ideologies, to providing the human dimension. The reading theory is the privileged angle to question the aesthetic practices, crossing the now accepted intertextual tool with the notion of arrière-texte that makes it possible to grasp some hidden principals of creation more fully. The joint attention given to such dissimilar works illuminates literary and anthropological issues that are still current.