Is the thousand-year opposition between reality and imagination, inaugurated by Plato, still valid in the digital age? We intend to question the Platonic positioning by paradoxically basing ourselves on the least real art according to Plato himself: literature. We will show, through a brief historical retrospective of the filiation that, from Baudelaire's flânerie through the situationist practice of the dérive, leads to contemporary digital literature on space, how this typology of literature, with its strategies of writing, its poetics and its practices, can thwart this opposition engraved in our thought.