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1958. Contre Sainte-Beuve ( French: [kɔ̃tʁ sɛ̃t bœv], "Against Sainte-Beuve ") is an unfinished book of essays written by Marcel Proust between 1895 and 1900 and first published posthumously in 1954. The book was discovered, with its pages in order, amongst Proust's papers after his death. It consists of several essays, three of which ...
- Marcel Proust
- 1954
- 1954
- France
- Saint-Beuve’S Criticism, Proust’s Aesthetics
- Frame and A La Recherché
- Homosexuality
- Translation
At the center of Contre Sainte-Beuve are three essays refuting the literary criticism of Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve (1804–69), a prominent French intellectual and member of l’Académie française. Sainte-Beuve championed a form of biographical criticism that saw texts as morally and intellectually inseparable from their writers. Here is Sainte-Beu...
The three essays on art at the center of Contre Sainte-Beuve are bookended by the first-person narrative of a character named Marcel Proust, an early demonstration of the aesthetic system Proust proposes to replace Sainte-Beuve’s. Like the narrator of A la recherche two decades later, the Marcel of Contre Sainte-Beuveis a neurasthenic and an aesthe...
One of many motivations for Proust’s repudiation of biographical criticism may have been his knowledge that his sexuality would invalidate his writing according to the Sainte-Beuvian rubric. At the time he wrote Contre Sainte-Beuve Proust was still formulating his theory of homosexuality. The topic is given its own chapter—“A race accursed”—an unco...
I have relied on the Sylvia Townsend Warner translation (1957) of Contre Sainte-Beuve, which is written in a style closer to the recent Penguin In Search of Lost Time led by Christopher Prendergast than to C. K. Scott Moncrieff’s ornamental Remembrance of Things Past. Warner avoids mucking about with Proust’s long sentences, and lets Proust occasio...
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Contre Sainte-Beuve est un recueil de critique littéraire de Marcel Proust, publié à titre posthume en 1954, et rassemblant les pages que l'écrivain a consacrées, sans leur donner d'ordre, aux auteurs qu'il admirait. On y lit le point de vue de Proust sur Nerval, Baudelaire, Balzac et Flaubert .
Other articles where Contre Sainte-Beuve is discussed: Marcel Proust: Life and works: …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 world of unconscious memory the ever-living reality to which ...
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Apr 3, 2024 · 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 ...
Contre Sainte-Beuve (CS В, pp. 225-28) enables us to measure some of the ground Proust covered in shaping the character who would become the Narra-tor. In Contre Sainte-Beuve , a one-page development about the neophyte writer is introduced casually, almost as an aside, in the midst of a discussion
