the re-telling and re-writting are always a complicated things.And the question about the ethical is obvious.For example in journalism, the most common form of re-telling, there is a lot of rules. How objective can you be about a fact? Even if journalists try almost the times to be impartial, it's quite easy to understand that the informations about a same fact are different in the different country.That the poin of view are different. In all the diplomatic accidents or conflist, opinion is different.Theyre is no real truth, each one seems to have is own truth.Palestians think they are right as much as Israel thinks. But is it true to say that everyone have is thruth? that evryone can be right as long as one or more think the same. If we take the tragic acidents of the worl war 2, Hitler was wrong even if he thinks the opposite.We have to think through the prism of human being.There is rules, our society is based on moral.You can't do everything you want without taking care of the responsablities. Even in Art, wich apear has a sphere much more free than journalism.the question about re-telling the fact is present. This the principal purpose of this short essay.Through the works of some artists we are going to try to examine and discuss the ethical issues involved in the re-telling of actual events. The first part is links to the works of the French artist Christian Boltanski.Indeed all his work is about collective memory.On really serious subject such as the war and the holocaust. About mixing his story with the History.This could be really perilous if not done carrefully. The second part is links to a novella called "How to become someone" from a book titled "Tales on ecstasy" written by Frederic Beigbeder, a famous french novelist.His work of "double narration" is often compared with the work of Bret Easton Ellis in France. In this novella, the narrator is a a drunk, racist an depressive limousine driver.The two clients in his car during the