Volume 43, Number 8 · May 9, 1996
Love à la Mode
By P.N. Furbank
The Love Affair as a Work of Art
by Dan Hofstadter
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 314 pp., $24.00
Proust's Contre Sainte-Beuve, that is to say the selection of his unpublished writings brought out under that title in 1954, was a revelation in half-a-dozen different ways. As Bernard de Fallois made clear in his introduction, it was from a long-cherished plan of Proust's to write an attack on Sainte-Beuve that his novel A la recherche du temps perdu arose.
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