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Against Sainte-Beuve

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Against Sainte-Beuve is a collection of critical articles and essays by Marcel Proust (1871–1922). Proust enters into a dispute with the famous literary critic Charles-Augustin de Sainte-Beuve (1804–1869), the founder of the biographical method in literary criticism. In his judgments, Sainte-Beuve relies primarily on his personal acquaintance with writers, while Proust believes that a work creates a person’s innermost, deepest “I”, separate from his public persona. Writers should be judged by their books, and not books by their authors. Conducting a mental dispute with the late critic, Proust analyzes the poems of Charles Baudelaire and Gérard de Nerval, the novels of Gustave Flaubert and Honoré de Balzac, Tolstoy and Dostoevsky, and the paintings of Gustave Moreau, Antoine Watteau, and Claude Monet. But "Against Sainte-Beuve" is not a collection of dry theoretical essays, but a living literary narrative in which the hero-narrator and his beloved mother exchange impressions. On the pages of the book, Proust the critic turns into Proust the writer, and from the articles "In Search of Lost Time" is born.
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