Against Sainte-Beuve and Other Essays.
Translated with an introduction and notes by John Sturrock. London: Penguin Books, 1988.
This volume of translation is based on Contre Sainte-Beuve, précédé de Pastiches et mélanges, et suivi de Essais et articles. Eds. Pierre Clarac et Yves Sandre. Paris: collection Pléiade, Gallimard, 1971.
Contents
Againt Sainte-Beuve
- Preface
- The Method of Sainte-Beuve
- Gérard de Nerval
- Sainte-Beuve and Baudelaire
- Sainte-Beuve and Balzac
- To be Added to Flaubert
- Romain Rolland
- Mor?as
Other Essays
- Schoolboy Writings
- Questionnaires
- True Beauty
- A Sunday at the Conservatoire
- Chardin and Rembrandt
- Camille Saint-Saëns, Pianist
- The Person of Alphonse Daudet, ‘Work of Art’
- Poetic Creation
- The Power of the Novelist
- Poetry, or the Mysterious Laws
- A Historic Salon: The Salon of Her Imperial Highness the Princess Mathilde
- John Ruskin
- Days of Reading I
- Days of Reading II
- Swann Explained by Proust
- Proust’s Revelations on the Continuation of his Novel, 1915
- Dedication
- Preface to Blanche
- On Flaubert’s style
- Preface to Morand
- Concerning Baudelaire
- The Goncourts
- Dostoyevsky
- On Goethe
- On Chateaubriand
- Notes on Stendhal
- On George Eliot
- Tolstoy
- The Painter. Shadows – Monet