Abstract

ZAPATA, Juan. The Stance of the Praiseworthy Poor. Toward the Construction of the Myth of Literary Damnation. Lit. teor. hist. crit. [online]. 2015, vol.17, n.1, pp.50-68. ISSN 0123-5931.  https://doi.org/10.15446/lthc.v17n1.48685.

The careers of Jean Jacques Rousseau and Nicolas Gilbert introduce an unprecedented strategy of legitimization into the French literary scene: that of the writer who gives up social and economic rewards and exhibits his poverty and the unhappiness it entails, as a sign of his independence and virtue. A brief analysis of how this stance is reflected in the works of Rousseau and Gilbert allows us to better understand the transformation that it caused in the practices and representations of the literary, and how it laid the bases for the construction of the myth of literary damnation.

Keywords : Rousseau; Gilbert; myth of literary damnation; stance of the praiseworthy poor.

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