An Essay on Literary Criticism

In this paper, author expounds,within framework of French literary criticism, especially criticism of the Geneva School, a series of problems such as study of literature/ literary criticism, common reader, practical criticism, criticism as an act of intersubjective dialogue, reading/criticism, essay as a genre of literary criticism, and rational impressionism, from which he derives a vivid form of literary criticism which can be defined as free criticism--to transform criticism into critical essay as freest literary genre.