Marcel Proust: On Art and Literature 1896-1919
Beginning with the remarkable essay "Contre Sainte-Beuve", this surprising and stimulating critical collection includes Proust on the contemporary writing of his era, on painting and painters, and on such literary masters of the nineteenth century as Tolstoy, Goethe, and Stendhal.
Beginning with the remarkable essay "Contre Sainte-Beuve", this surprising and stimulating critical collection includes Proust on the contemporary writing of his era, on painting and painters, and on such literary masters of the nineteenth century as Tolstoy, Goethe, and Stendhal.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780786704545 (0786704543)
Publish date: August 5th 1997
Publisher: Carroll & Graf Publishers
Pages no: 416
Edition language: English
AcknowledgmentIntroduction, by Terence Kilmartin--Contre Sainte-BeuveMiscellaneous WritingsProust the Critic--Against the young writers of the day--On taste--A history of French satire--A Sunday concert at the Conservatoire--Patriotism and the Christian Spirit--On 'La Bonne Hélène'--Portrait of a wr...