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The question of origins, introduced as early as 1934 by Jean Amrouche, continues in more residual literary treatment of Arabia felix. The cassolette contains the secrets of an underground rampart against ideological recovery of origins, and it preserves, at the same time, the legacies that history has tangled up. Arabia continues to manifest itself in its fullness as language, culture and history; but, oscillating between proximity and distance, it participates by “natural filiation” in a complex of traces. Literary texts stamped by recurring patterns of this reference – the opulence, the divination, the ante-islamic poetry, the fundamental knowledge, the palingenesis, the arab queens –, first have a symbolic referred to critical inheritance of civilizations wich have been running in Algeria and have weaved a multiple genealogy.