The poetical proximity between Reverdy and J. Dupin is obvious straight from the texts, in the form of a shared Imaginary, at the crossroads of motifs such as that of the wall or the rock, or through common Poetic traits – the use of blanks, the power given to the negative. But based on statements and on the tributes to his elder gathered in M’introduire dans ton histoire, we can glimpse the paradoxical role assigned to the anecdotal in J. Dupin’s relationship to works whose author he spent time with : it is the absence (wich he can check) of Reverdy’s biographical ego in his poems that gives them, in his opinion, an increased and new value.