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Rue des voleurs by Mathias Énard and Les Grands by Sylvain Prudhomme share the same narrative structure to embody contemporary uprisings and to raise the question of their failures. In both texts, a parallel is set between two insurrections, the Arab Spring and the Spanish Indignados Movement in Énard's work, and the fight for Independence in the 1960s in Guinea-Bissau and the 2012 elections in the same country in Prudhomme's novel. This essay analyzes how these parallels indicate the unfinished state of uprisings—and the need to pursue such political fights—rather than the general failure of revolutions since the last century. Thereby, these fictions refuse to sanctify revolutions while highlighting the critical dimension of uprisings in the political sphere. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]