Authenticity has become an omnipresent notion of aspiration in recent years. Due to the digitalisation and the experience of estrangement involved, the originality and credibility promising aura of authenticity has unfolded a power, even in the communication on literature, that exceeds its origin as a fashionable word. Christian Dinger analyses the use of the notion of authenticity related to literary phenomena in a literary sociological study and examines the assignment and performance practices which help to claim the only interpretation on the notion of authenticity. Here, the author presents the mechanisms and positioning debates on the modern linguistic field.