ABSTRACT
The author tackles the multiple relations that literary fiction maintains with economic life and economic theory. Two main types of relations can be shown: relations of concordance or correspondence, but also more conflictual relations of antagonism, opposition, dissidence. This opposition is summed up by the fact that literary fiction (in Stendhal, Vigny, Balzac, Zola, etc.) shows characters who embody the typical homo oeconomicus but also characters, especially women, who clearly contradict and contest the features of the homo oeconomicus. From this point of view literature underlined a critique of political economy.
