L’Affaire Lemoine

discussed in biography

• 
  In Marcel Proust: Works: short stories, essays, novels, and letters

  …Proust’s favorite French authors—called “L’Affaire Lemoine” (published in Le Figaro), through which he endeavored to purge his style of extraneous influences. Then, realizing the need to establish the philosophical basis that his novel had hitherto lacked, he wrote the essay “Contre Sainte-Beuve” (published 1954), attacking the French critic Charles…

  Read More