Generative literature, defined as the production of continuously changing literary textsby means of a specific dictionary, some set of rules and the use of algorithms, is a veryspecific form of digital literature which is completely changing most of the concepts ofclassical literature. Texts being produced by a computer and not written by an authorrequire indeed a very special way of engrammation and, in consequence, also point toa specific way of reading, particularly concerning all the aspects of the literary time. Inmy paper, I will try to present some of the characteristics of generative texts and theirconsequences for the conception of literature itself.I call “engrammation” the adaptation of choices of expression to the technical constraintsof the medium used for its mediatization. For instance, a book needs a fixed writing,and the mediatization by means of a screen needs other modalities of presentation.
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