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Contre Sainte-Beuve (French: [kɔ̃tʁ sɛ̃t bœv], "Against Sainte-Beuve") is an unfinished book of essays written by Marcel Proust between 1895 and 1900 and first published posthumously in 1954. The book was discovered, with its pages in order, amongst Proust's papers after his death.
- Marcel Proust
- 1954
Contre Sainte-Beuve est un recueil de critique littéraire de Marcel Proust, publié à titre posthume en 1954, et rassemblant les pages que l'écrivain a consacrées, sans leur donner d'ordre, aux auteurs qu'il admirait.
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A gradual disengagement from social life coincided with growing ill health and with his active involvement in the Dreyfus affair of 1897–99, when French politics and society were split by the movement to liberate the Jewish army officer Alfred Dreyfus, unjustly imprisoned on Devil’s Island as a spy.
Proust wrote Contre Sainte-Beuve in 1895-1900 as a response to the literary criticism of Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve, who based his judgments on the personal lives of writers. Proust argues for a different approach to literature, based on the artistry and emotion of the text, and foreshadows his own novel A la recherche du temps perdu.
En calquant la méthode propre aux sciences naturelles, Sainte-Beuve endosse la proposition selon laquelle le monde empirique existe a priori et qu’il est garant d’objectivité et de vérité. La thèse proustienne, quant à elle, ne dépend pas d’une telle proposition.
Nov 5, 2013 · Thierry Laget goes as far as writing: ‘in their varied form, Marcel Proust's Essais et articles are no more than one single day of reading, a day of reading that lasts over half a century and which imperceptibly transforms itself into a day of writing’.
