Scientific editors:Wagneur (Jean-Didier), Cestor (Françoise) General director:Cabanès (Jean-Louis)
Abstract: Published in 1860 under the title Les Hommes de lettres, Charles Demailly is a modern work which marks the Goncourts’ return to the novel. A blazing critique of journalistic bohemia, it describes the literary field at the moment it becomes autonomous, and asks what it means to be a writer in 1860.