The romantic work of Kossi Éfoui is marked by the urgency to Be. Kossi Éfoui mostly gives one of his characters a camera. Press, artist's or ID photos fix images the narrator looks at. They become object of the narrative. Two different languages mix, they are the vehicle of a new reality to be represented and to represent. Because for Kossi Éfoui a word is never exhausted in what it has to say, the romantic aesthetics of this writer seems, from a book to the other, to use the plasticity of this literary genre to use it as a "revelation" of the act of reading confronted with the technical transformations of our world, to use it as well, as the "revelation" of the man of today. The reading is an act to be felt. This playwright says he writes novels to be able to take his time. Actually, the romantic shape is fertile.