This article present a thematic study of transcendence in two short stories from Nouvelles orientales by Marguerite Yourcenar: La tristesse de Cornélius Berg and Comment Wang-Fô fut sauvé. Here we compared two representations of death. The first representation which of La tristesse de Cornélius Berg shows the removal of the sacred aura of reality and the solitude in the last moments of life. The second representation which of Comment Wang-Fô fut sauvé shows the learning of a new perception and understanding of the world one of transcendence and harmonious companionship through death.