In this article the author explores the impossible narration of the civil war in Lebanon through the trajectories of social anthropologists who studied prewar Lebanon but postponed the writing of their ethnographies for twenty years. Then, she explores the atypical forms of memories of Lebanese people who lived through the war experience using her own ethnography of postwar Lebanon. Despite being a major social transformation, the war is presented by the Lebanese as something they “went through” rather than “lived,” as if they were the observers of a play—a mix of nostalgia and taste for drama—much like the anthropologists whose writing was postponed by the events. The author uses biographical approaches and Johannes Fabian’s notion of coevaleness as methodological ressources that need to be discussed in order to describe contemporary Lebanese society.