This chapter analyses The Art of Losing by Alice Zeniter. If read through the lens of the normative theory of literature, this novel proves to be a relevant instance of literature’s world-making capacity. The first section of the chapter focuses on the disruption created by colonialism, as well as by the struggle of decolonisation in Algeria; the second section analyses the reverberations of this initial unworlding upon the main characters, configuring this unworlding as a form of transgenerational trauma; the third section considers the movement of self-return initiated by one of the main characters as an opportunity of re-worlding.