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 : a parallel is set between two insurrections, the Arab Spring and the Spanish Indignados Movement in Énard's work, the fight for Independence in the 60's in Guinea-Bissau and the 2012 elections in the same country in Prudhomme's novel. This paper analyzes how these parallels indicate the unfinished state of uprisings – and the need to pursue such political fights – more than a defeat of revolutions since the last century. Thereby, these fictions refuse to sanctify revolutions as well as they highlight the critical dimension of uprisings in the political sphere.