This text examines the shifting understanding of the concept of "the new" within the European tradition, beginning with ancient Greece. The author argues that Greek philosophers were not interested in ontological novelty but rather in obtaining new insights into truths that were considered eternal. This perspective, clearly evident in Democritean atomism, relegated living beings and objects to the status of accidental clusters of atoms. This paradigm persists in modern exact sciences, where new findings must rely on pre-existing constants and remain entirely independent of the discoverer's individual trace. While various philosophical attempts have been made to grasp genuine novelty within reality itself, they have often resulted in conceptual impasses. The text concludes by interpreting Charles Péguy’s notion that Homer remains "fresh" every morning while daily newspapers age instantly. It suggests that a true work of art is not a static relic but a process realized anew through each reading. True novelty is thus found in the work's relationship to a "true future," allowing it to emerge as genuinely new in every encounter.