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Even though the gift is crucial in the peculiar dynamics of literary groups, there has been no thorough research of this phenomenon. This paper, based on a resolutely transnational perspective, proposes a study of the multiple forms of gift characterizing the life of literary groups: gift of speech, manuscripts, books, dedications. Gifts transforms friendships in group identity, creating a constant narrative reflection on itself: the story of the relation as a flux of exchanges. The analysis of literary groups thus shows the profound homology between gift and narrative, both being synthesis of the heterogeneous (Ricoeur).