It is of common knowledge that literary translation, more than the transposition of a language into another one is the transposition of a culture into another one and, even more, that of a literary tradition into another one. We mean to show here that if translating is subject to linguistic constraints which make it a scientific activity, it is connected in other respects (by the involvement of the literary culture of the translator and the acuteness of its pen) with own interpretative options that make it an artistic activity. Our French version of a few excerpts from modern Spanish novels will enable to ascertain more clearly how a poetic borrowing drawn out of the target literary culture (in the circumstances, the French one) can represent a first-rate traductological resort. The examples in question will finally show how the translator may be led to couple the Spanish prose together with the French poetry, for both ethical and aesthetic reasons.