Talk:Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve

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Contre Sainte Beuve[edit]

"Marcel Proust took issue with this contention and began an essay meant to refute it. Proust's essay eventually developed into À la recherche du temps perdu."

Well, not quite. Around 1909 Proust completed (although it seems to not have been published until many years later by Gallimard) a long set of essays titled "Contre Sainte Beuve" whose opening words are "Every day I set less store on intellect". English translation by Sylvia Townsend Warner (Chatto and Windus, 1958). Many of the themes of À la recherche were mooted in these essays. See George Painter's biography. Xxanthippe 23:11, 26 September 2007 (UTC).[reply]

"Contre Sainte Beuve" is the title of a set of twenty-five essays. None of the individual essays is titled "Contre Sainte Beuve". Xxanthippe 02:54, 15 October 2007 (UTC).[reply]

Needs attention[edit]

Reads like it has been copied from somewhere, possibly from a non-English source. Badly written. What can "the Premier lundis of his collected Works" possibly mean? He was an "acute sufferer" - er, from what exactly? Maybe a history of the Port-Royal abbey counts as literary research - but why? The reader gets no sense of what he did or why he was an "important" figure.KD Tries Again (talk) 21:56, 12 June 2011 (UTC)KD Tries Again[reply]