L’histoire litteraire is a pertinent study on problems of literary theory, as far as approach the history of literary history with the solidity of a complex analysis: treat the phenomenon through the nature of object, of literary function, of literalness, of literary practice, resume the problem of the horizon of waiting, the aesthetic taste and the conditions of propagation of the poetic act, the function of the artistic work, the intertextuality, the sociological critique of Marxist, the sociology of literature, the 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 familiar any reader with the main events that marked the literary history and with the fears and contradictions that collides the author. Jean Rohou doesn’t hesitate to take action even in opposition with the great theorists of literature, keeping the critical note throughout the book. The relevance of this study in terms of the rehabilitation of intersubjectivity and of the approach of social criticism perspective of literary in hermeneutic becomes one overwhelming.