L’histoire litteraire is a pertinent study on problems of literary theory, as well as an approach to the literary history with a complex analysis: to treat the phenomenon through the nature of object, literary function, literarity, literary practice; to resume the problem of the expectations, aesthetic taste and propagation conditions of the poetic act; to set the functions of an artistic work, intertextuality, sociological Marxist criticism, sociology of literature, social criticism. This book is a brief presentation of literary history, insisting on the relevant aspects, achieving a study able to inform and to make any reader familiar with the main events that marked literary history and with the author’s fears and contradictions. Jean Rohou doesn’t hesitate to take action even in opposition with the great theorists of literature, keeping his critical note throughout the book. The relevance of this study in terms of the rehabilitation of intersubjectivity and of the approach to social criticism perspective is overwhelming.