Before and after Sainte-Beuve: An Epistemic Fracture in Proust's Life and in the History of French Literary Criticism

Abstract

Analysis of Marcel Proust's essay Against Sainte-Beuve, published thirty-two years after the author's death and having always been interpreted as a revolution in French literary criticism.

Keywords

• Marcel Proust
• Sainte-Beuve
• French literature
• literary criticism
• polemic