The paper presents the topic of fous littéraires – ‘crazy writers’, whose creativity is systematic researched in France, from the Charles Nodier’s book from 1835 to the present. This issue, in spite of the growing interest in the global literature, is unknown in Poland. The aim of this article is to introduce new perspective of research in cultural status of creator, due to the place which has fou littéraire in the relation between ‘genius author’ – ‘mad author’. Moreover, the result of the studies on the Polish ‘crazy writers’ at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries will be discussed.
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