L’Affaire Lemoine

References

L’Affaire Lemoine

work by Proust

Written by

The Information Architects of Encyclopaedia Britannica

Learn about this topic in these articles:

Marcel Proust
Works: short stories, essays, novels, and letters
…Proust’s favorite French authors—called “L’Affaire Lemoine” (published in Le Figaro), through which he endeavored to purge his style of extraneous influences. Then, realizing the need to establish the philosophical basis that his novel had hitherto lacked, he wrote the essay “Contre Sainte-Beuve” (published 1954), attacking the French critic Charles…
Read More
…Proust’s favorite French authors—called “L’Affaire Lemoine” (published in Le Figaro), through which he endeavored to purge his style of extraneous influences. Then, realizing the need to establish the philosophical basis that his novel had hitherto lacked, he wrote the essay “Contre Sainte-Beuve” (published 1954), attacking the French critic Charles…
Read More