Proust on Art and Literature

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.

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.

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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