Proust on Art and Literature

by Proust, Marcel; Warner, Sylvia Townsend; Kilmartin, Terence

• ISBN13: 9780786704545
• ISBN10: 0786704543
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-08-26
• Publisher: Da Capo Press

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