Contre Sainte-Beuve

essay by Proust

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In Marcel Proust: Works: short stories, essays, novels, and letters
…he wrote the essay “Contre Sainte-Beuve” (published 1954), attacking the French critic Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve’s view of literature as a pastime of the cultivated intelligence and putting forward his own, in which the artist’s task is to release from the buried world of unconscious memory the ever-living reality to…
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