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4 days ago · Then, realizing the need to establish the philosophical basis that his novel had hitherto lacked, he wrote the essay “ Contre Sainte-Beuve” (published 1954), attacking the French critic’s view of literature as a pastime of the cultivated intelligence and putting forward his own, in which the artist’s task is to release from the buried ...
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5 days ago · In “Contre Sainte-Beuve,” a collection of essays in which Marcel Proust critiques the method of literary criticism employed by Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve, he vividly describes how historical imagination can transform our perception of ancient sites, such as the fictional estate of Guermantes.
1 day ago · I don’t know whether Murakami-the-morning-writer and Murakami-the-guy-who-produced-this-line are the same person, different souls living in the same body, something else. Proust warned in Contre Sainte-Beuve not to use information about an artist’s life as a person to inform one’s assessment of their art. But that’s not exactly what’s ...
15 hours ago · L'affaire Birotteau: Balzac, Sainte-Beuve et Farina. Chapitre V. Satan romancier ? Frédéric Soulié et la "publicité" du mal. Alfred Nettement, le feuilleton-roman et le lit du pape. Frédéric Soulié: Les Mémoires du diable et le démon du récit. Chapitre VI. La fabrique de romans du "diable noir": Alexandre Dumas
1 day ago · Pourquoi les affaires criminelles nous fascinent-elles ? Que nous enseigne l’événement criminel sur la question de la vérité et du mal ? Quelle est la raison du crime ?
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2 days ago · St. Agnes’ name means “chaste” in Greek and “lamb” in Latin. Both meanings foreshadowed her death as a virgin martyr who died because she defended her chastity and refused to give up her faith. St. Agnes was born to noble, Christian parents in 291 A.D. in the Roman Empire. She lived during a time of Christian persecution under the ...
5 days ago · Port-Royal de Sainte-Beuve et les religions du XIX e siècle, par Patrick Labarthe (Zurich) Présidence : Ralph Häfner. Prouver sans s’interdire de plaire : permanence et renouvellement du discours apologétique catholique sous le Second Empire , par Stéphanie Dord-Crouslé (CNRS) La science des religions n’aura pas lieu , par Philippe ...
