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Marcel Proust: On Art and Literature 1896-1919

Beginning with the remarkable essay "Contre Sainte-Beuve", this surprising and stimulating critical collection includes Proust 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.

Themes
artwriters
Audience
adult
Length
long · 416 pages
Form
essays

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