Proust on Art and Literature

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Pub. Date: 1997-08-26
Publisher(s): Grand Central Publishing
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Summary

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.

Author Biography

Sylvia Townsend Warner was a translator, novelist, and short-story writer.

Terence Kilmartin revised C. K. Moncrieff's translation of A la recherche du temps perdu.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgment 7(2)
Translator's preface 9(10)
CONTRE SAINTE-BEUVE 19(260)
Prologue 19(8)
1 In slumbers
27(6)
2 Bedrooms
33(6)
3 The days
39(12)
4 The Countess
51(8)
5 The article in Le Figaro
59(11)
6 The sunbeam on the balcony
70(13)
7 Talking to Mamma
83(11)
8 The method of Sainte-Beuve
94(26)
9 Sainte-Beuve and Baudelaire
120(24)
10 Gerard de Nerval
144(13)
11 Sainte-Beuve and Balzac
157(33)
12 Monsieur de Guermantes's Blazac
190(20)
13 A race accursed
210(20)
14 Names
230(18)
15 The return
248(17)
16 The return to the present
265(14)
MISCELLANEOUS WRITINGS 279(120)
PROUST THE CRITIC
279(40)
1 Against the young writers of the day
279(2)
2 On taste
281(2)
3 A history of French satire
283(5)
4 A Sunday concert at the Conservatoire
288(4)
5 Patriotism and the Christian Spirit
292(2)
6 On La Bonne Helene
294(4)
7 Portrait of a writer
298(4)
8 Poet and novelist
302(3)
9 The wane of inspiration
305(2)
10 The artist in contemplation
307(7)
11 The creed of art
314(5)
PORTRAITS OF PAINTERS
319(44)
1 Watteau
319(4)
2 Chardin
323(14)
3 Rembrandt
337(8)
4 Gustave Moreau
345(11)
5 Monet
356(7)
PROUST THE READER
363(36)
1 Goethe
363(4)
2 Chateaubriand
367(4)
3 Joubert
371(2)
4 Notes on Stendhal
373(3)
5 George Eliot
376(2)
6 Tolstoi
378(2)
7 Dostoievski
380(2)
8 Jules Renard
382(2)
9 Robert de Montesquiou
384(9)
10 Henri de Regnier
393(2)
11 Leon Daudet
395(4)
Translator's note 399(1)
NOTES 400

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