Michel Foucault was not only a discerning reader and a writer whose style was recognized and admired at the exit of any new book.

His relationship with literature has always been complex, critical, strategic.
The texts that make up this book - unpublished lectures, conferences, radio broadcasts - give a wide and relevant testimony of it. Shakespeare, Cervantes, Diderot, Sade, Artaud, Leiris ... Like few other times, Michel Foucault offers a description of its library of literary texts.