Today we are witnessing an abundant production of literary and artistic works which are characterized by a "light meditative." This study attempts to show, through the analysis of the work of Jean Echenoz, Eric Chevillard, Jean-Philippe Toussaint and Christian Gailly, the postmodern irony as irony in general, is not only a way of particular discourse, but also and especially a worldview that results from the condition of the contemporary individual.