This article analyzes the first novel by Dany Laferrière, Comment faire l’amour avec un Nègre sans se fatiguer. It demonstrates that, read from the point of view of its narrative architecture, its organization of space, the place it gives to the production, distribution and reception of the artistic work, this novel is a clear representation of the book-object. It thus intends to contribute to completing the analyses that limited themselves to the subsidiary facets of that key element which gives content and form to the novel.