Essays foreshadowing the great themes of Remembrance of Things PastBeginning with the remarkable essay "Contre Saint-Beuve, " this surprising and stimulating critical collection presents Proust's views 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.
"The whole volume is an impassioned plea by Proust himself . . . it will enlighten readers of Remembrance of Things Past."--New York Times Book Review
- ISBN10 0786704543
- ISBN13 9780786704545
- Publish Date 26 August 1997
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Carroll & Graf Publishers Inc
- Edition 2nd Revised edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 416
- Language English