In the first one third of my paper, I pursue the analysis of the changes in connection with literary mediation’s possibilities in the late 19th century. In this analysis I overview the press’s expansion processes in relation to the shock that the exclusivity of book suffers around this period. Then, continuing with the analysis of the literary creation’s conditions of possibility, I investigate the patronage and the function of the Baumgarten Foundation. Ce paper ends with an analysis of the modern writer’s degree of freedom.