The article aims to determine the way in which contemporary literature represents work as an object of fiction by means of studying a corpus of novels that includes Francois Bon's Daewoo (2004), Jean Rolin's Terminal Frigo (2005), Delphin de Vigan's Les heures souterraines (2009) [Underground Time] and Nathalie Kuperman's Nous étions des êtres vivants (2010). With the purpose of answering questions regarding the relation between the experience of the present and the transformations it causes on current poetics of novel, it is purported to identify the most relevant features of the writing of the real, which has established itself as an aesthetic trend with a nature of its own within French current literary scene.