Talk:Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve
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[edit] Contre Sainte Beuve
"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).
"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).
