Fascinated by André Malraux, his entourage has long conferred on him a mythical image which has been reinforced by the writer himself through his antimemorial project. This typology of witnesses over time identifies four periods and reveals that the myth sketched since the 1940's persisted until after the death of André Malraux, even though the latter had already allowed certain individuals close to him to speak out, making the beginning of the demythification.