Marcel Proust on art and literature, 1896-1919
By: translated by Sylvia Townsend Warner ; introduction by Terence Kilmartin.
Contributors: Warner, Sylvia Townsend, 1893-
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: Carroll & Graf
Published: 1997
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 416
Subjects: Proust, Marcel, 1871-1922 -- Aesthetics.; Sainte-Beuve, Charles Augustin, 1804-1869 -- Aesthetics.; French fiction -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.; Aesthetics, French.
Description: Beginning with the remarkable essay "Contre Saint-Beuve," this surprising and stimulating critical collection presents Proust's views 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [399]-416).