Abstract EN:

The classical age, as a social value, represents a decisive moment in the history of literature. From then on, the concept of the writer as a character was given a meaning and his status, still in a shaping state (and therefore ambiguous), was established. This piece of work finds its origin in this acknowledgement. The writer as a character takes shapes in parallel to the making of the literary institutions, and this simultaneity installs a literature of the literary and of the institutions. Asking oneself questions about the images of the writer meant in fact asking oneself a series of questions about literature and about those who take part in it. On the other hand, it allowed us to give an account of the conflicts between writers over the status of their work and functions. Discussing the image of the writer leads to the unveiling of the practice of the literary field and on its relations to the writer-shaping personality. There is a dual image of the writer : it is the result of creation, and it is also a theoric and aesthetic stake. The literary stake remains within the social stake of the literary field. The literary practice carries the mark of social ideals, from which they were born. The image of the writer invents, in its own special way, a new conception of literature but, at the same time, backs up the idea that a writer is a human being and a source of exchange s.