Voltaire, La Notion d'oeuvres complètes.

'Corpus', 'selected works', 'collection of works', 'complete works', there is no shortage of expressions to designate a writer's entire output. However, the expression 'complete works' did not become established until 1770, before the great mausoleums of Voltaire's works in the Kehl edition, or the complete works of Rousseau, Condillac, Montesquieu, etc. were published. While it is easy to collect works belonging to the same genre and especially works already published, it is more difficult to juxtapose all the productions of a writer. An investigation into the notion of complete works therefore opens up more complex notions: those of writer, author, genre and, finally, of literature. Preface Jean Sgard, Des collections aux œuvres complètes, 1756-1798 Françoise Létoublon, Remarques sur l'absence de la notion d'œuvres complètes chez les auteurs de l'Antiquité (Remarks on the absence of the notion of complete works among ancient authors) Catherine Volpilhac-Auger, Des 'œuvres plus que complètes': Editions of Ancient Authors Shelly Charles, Complete Works and Translation Nicole Masson, Voltaire and his trimmings Jean Ehrard, Crébillion's 'Complete Works' Georges Dulac, Completeness as Convention: the 'Complete Works' of Diderot Jean-François Perrin, This is my body: J. - J. Rousseau and his 'Edition générale' Véronique Costa, L.-S. Mercier ou le livre de sable: la bibliographie de l'an VII - de l'œuvre complète à l'œuvre virtuelle Jean-Claude Bonnet, L.-S. Mercier et les 'Œuvres complètes' de Jean-Jacques Rousseau Catherine Larrère, Œuvres complètes, œuvres incomplètes. A propos de Michel Foucault.