Title: Marcel Proust on art and literature, 1896-1919
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.
Subjects: Aesthetics, Aesthetics, French, French Aesthetics, French fiction, History and criticism, Theory, Proust, marcel, 1871-1922, Sainte-beuve, charles augustin, 1804-1869, French fiction, history and criticism, Criticism
People: Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve (1804-1869), Marcel Proust (1871-1922)