This thesis analyzes the courses given by Roland Barthes at Collège de France (1977-1980), drawing on his utterance cited in the title of this work in which he claims to experience the courses as a way, alluding to the Chinese word Tao. Barthes draws on this conception of way as a methodology for undertaking a new practice of writing, which he calls the novel. In the thesis, the projective observation of this supposed method in operation is designated in terms of methodological malaise. This terminology is justified by another personal utterance, this one proffered in Cerisy-la-Salle (1977), in which Barthes argues that the passion of fear has methodological value, because it is from it that an initiating way begins. Elsewhere in this research there is the simulation of a poetic of time in the making to correspond to the natural turn that Barthes calls a third turn of the screw and which, in the course The preparation of the novel I, is associated with the haiku. And finally, in the last branch of the approach, the courses are observed from the perspective of a writing handbook to highlight a pedagogy brought about by Barthes text itself, or indeed by the singularity of a writing that explicates its procedures on two levels: reflexive and critical discourse alongside poetic and performative demonstration. In this register, Barthes considerations about the acts of approaching, noting, indicating, misleading, capturing, classifying, commenting, defining, describing, listening, listing, floating, interpreting, observing, etc. are combined. Barthes said that a vanishing point for the course was the writing of a novel: moving from the preparation to the praxis of writing. Mon Roland. Mon Roman. And here we spiral back to the initial inquiry of the course The Preparation of the Novel I: how to progress from notation to novel, from discontinuity to flow, from fragment to non-fragment. Or else: how to write a novel?