Jacques Dubois (born 1933, Liège), Professor emeritus of Literature at the Université de Liège invented the concept of the Literary Institution following the work of Pierre Bourdieu[1] by analogy with other social institutions such as military, medical, and political.
Jacques Dubois: We were totally free to choose the 21 works which will be represented in the Pléiade.
And Benoît Denis: We have of course included the inescapable masterpieces, The Snow Was Black, Act of Passion Mr.
As a result we have included works from his beginnings, less known, like Tropic Moon and The House by the Canal, where, nonetheless, all of Simenon is already present.
[2] According to Michel Biron, "Jacques Dubois sought to establish the link between institution and text, while institution upon one of sociocriticism's and, his view, neglected goals, namely the conditions of the material conditions of a text.