By Way of Sainte-Beuve
Author: Marcel Proust
Publisher: Random House (UK)
Published: 1984
Total Pages: 230
ISBN-13:
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Against Saint Beuve
Author: Marcel Proust
Publisher: Livraria Press
Published: 2024-05-09
Total Pages: 202
ISBN-13: 3989886126
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA new translation of Marcel Proust's 1900 work "Against Saint Beuve" (Contre Sainte Beuve). This edition contains a new Afterword by the translator, a timeline of Proust's life and works and a glossary of philosophic concepts in his body of work. Here Marcel Proust critically challenges the established norms of literary criticism and delves into the subjective nature of artistic interpretation, rejecting the notion that an author's personal life and experiences should be the sole basis for understanding their work, asserting the importance of the reader's own impressions and the transformative power of imagination. This work is considered significant for its departure from traditional literary analysis, opening new avenues for appreciating and comprehending literature.
Against Sainte-Beuve
Author: Marcel Proust
Publisher:
Published: 1994-08
Total Pages: 341
ISBN-13: 9780140185256
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAgainst Sainte-Beuve and Other Essays
Author: Marcel Proust
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Published: 1988
Total Pages: 414
ISBN-13:
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Author: Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve
Publisher: SUNY Press
Published: 1995-07-01
Total Pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9780791424520
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is the first English translation of a pre-Freudian psychological novel. The narrator victimizes women while feeling victimized by his own sensuality.
Proust
Author: Vincent Descombes
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 340
ISBN-13: 9780804720007
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThrough the voice of the narrator of Remembrance of Things Past, Proust observes of the painter Elstir that the paintings are bolder than the artist; Elstir the painter is bolder than Elstir the theorist. This book applies the same distinction Proust; the Proustian novel is bolder than Proust the theorist. By this the author means that the novel is philosophically bolder, that it pursues further the task Proust identifies as the writer's work: to explain life, to elucidate what has been lived in obscurity and confusion. In this, the novelist and the philosopher share a common goal: to clarify the obscure in order to arrive at the truth. It follows that Proust's real philosophy of the novel is to be found not in the speculative passages of Remembrance, which merely echo the philosophical commonplaces of his time, but in the truly novelistic or narrative portions of his text. In Against Sainte-Beuve, Proust sets forth his ideas about literature in the form of a critique of the method of Sainte-Beuve. Scholars who have studied Proust's notebooks describe the way in which this essay was taken over by bits of narrative originally intended as illustration supporting its theses. The philosophical portions of Remembrance were not added to the narrative as an afterthought, designed to bring out its meaning. What happened was the reverse: the novel was born of a desire to illustrate the propositions of the essay. Why then should we not find the novel more philosophically advanced than the essay? Reversing the usual order followed by literary critics, the author interprets the novel as an elucidation, and not as a simple transposition, of the essay. The book is not only a general interpretation of Proust's novel and its construction; it includes detailed discussions of such topics as literature and philosophy, the nature of the literary genres, the poetics of the novel, the definition of art, modernity and postmodernity, and the sociology of literature.
Mapping Lives
Author: Peter France
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2004-09-23
Total Pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9780197263181
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThese essays on the problems and functions of biography - particularly those of writers, thinkers and artists - investigate a subject of enduring importance for those interested in culture.
The Essays of Sainte-Beuve
Author: Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve
Publisher: Palala Press
Published: 2015-12-08
Total Pages: 236
ISBN-13: 9781347846209
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
The Mysterious Correspondent
Author: Marcel Proust
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2021-06-03
Total Pages: 144
ISBN-13: 0861540158
DOWNLOAD EBOOK'Startlingly audacious.' Literary Review New writing from the literary master Throughout Proust’s life, nine of his short stories remained unseen – the writer never even spoke of them. Perhaps he was not ready to share the early themes he was nurturing for his masterpiece, In Search of Lost Time. Or perhaps, in dealing directly with gay desire, they were too audacious – too near to life – for the censorious society of the time. In these stories, published in English for the first time, we find an intimate portrait of a young author full of darkness, complexity and melancholy, longing to reveal himself to the world.
The Lemoine Affair
Author: Marcel Proust
Publisher: Melville House
Published: 2012-11-06
Total Pages: 114
ISBN-13: 1612192335
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTheir friend Marcel Proust had killed himself after the fall in diamond shares, a collapse that annihilated a part of his fortune. This is the first-ever translation into English of this startling tour-de-force by one of the twentieth century’s greatest writers. The Lemoine Affair was inspired by the real-life French scandal involving Henri Lemoine, who claimed he could manufacture diamonds from coal and convinced numerous people—including officers of the De Beers diamond mine company and Proust himself—to invest in the scheme. In a series of pastiches—imitations written in the style of other writers—Proust tells the story of the embarrassment rippling across high society Paris in the wake of the scandal, poking fun at himself (in one story, a character declares that Marcel Proust is so embarrassed he’s suicidal) while lampooning some of France’s greatest writers, including Flaubert, Balzac, and Saint-Simon. Full of sophisticated wit and dazzling wordplay, and rife with allusions to his friend and fictional characters, many Proust scholars see the dead-on mimicry of The Lemoine Affair—written soon after Proust’s rejection of society life—as the work by which he honed his own unique, masterly voice. The Art of The Novella Series Too short to be a novel, too long to be a short story, the novella is generally unrecognized by academics and publishers. Nonetheless, it is a form beloved and practiced by literature's greatest writers. In the Art Of The Novella series, Melville House celebrates this renegade art form and its practitioners with titles that are, in many instances, presented in book form for the first time.
