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The author defends the hypothesis that the generation of the narrative voice’s concept in the « Discours du récit » by Gérard Genette would be largely conditioned by the complex maintained relationship with its object of study: À la recherche du temps perdu from Marcel Proust. Assuming that Genette’s article is built around a perspective in tension between theory and literary criticism, reflection is the influence established by the choice and treatment of this corpus on the construction of theoretical tools. Genette’s methodology is therefore well studied in the intellectual context of the late sixties, focusing on objectives explicitly stated in his article. Furthermore, the author proposes an analysis of the application of this method in the « Discours du récit » by showing that both in the general construction of the article, and in the section specifically devoted to the « Voix », critical target of the Proustian narrative complicates the theoretical establishment and directs the genettian narratology to a communicative representation of the narrative.