A resilient child, a teenager in the quest for the self, an adult of a faltering identity, the protagonist of Visage retrouvé, written by Mouawad Wajdi is a broken individual, in continuous transformation. We underline the fragmentary dimension of this novel, which describes the mathematician Benoît Mandelbrot and the painter J.-C. Meynard. This writing abounds in the representation of the fragmentary, such as : the reconstruction of the self, the encounter with the Other, the fears, the madness, the red, the war, the withdrawal, the hybrid, the death, the exile, the bomb, the face, the memory, or the wolves. We analyze the complexity of the “I” in the novel, who wants to be perceived as a “he”, the fantasies and the visions of the decomposed self, who saves himself through painting.