Sainte-beuve biography
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Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve
French literary critic (1804–1869)
Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve | |
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Sainte-Beuve, c. 1860s | |
| Born | (1804-12-23)23 December 1804 Boulogne-sur-Mer, Picardy, France |
| Died | 13 October 1869(1869-10-13) (aged 64) Paris, France |
| Occupation | Literary critic |
| Language | French |
| Nationality | French |
| Alma mater | Collège Charlemagne |
| Notable works | Port-Royal |
Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve (French pronunciation:[ʃaʁloɡystɛ̃sɛ̃tbœv]; 23 December 1804 – 13 October 1869) was a Frenchliterary critic.[1]
Early life
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by Michael Shapiro
Among the notebooks found at the time of Marcel Proust’s death were those containing Contre Sainte-Beuve, written 1895–1900. Contre Sainte-Beuve is an unusual document—part narrative, part essay—that can be read as an early draft of the first volumes of A la recherche du temps perdu and as a statement of Proust’s aesthetic principles.
Saint-Beuve’s Criticism, Proust’s Aesthetics
At the center of Contre Sainte-Beuve are three essays refuting the literary criticism of Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve (1804–69), a prominent French intellectual and member of l’Académie française. Sainte-Beuve championed a form of biographical criticism that saw texts as morally and intellectually inseparable from their writers. Here is Sainte-Beuve, as quoted by Proust:
So long as one has not asked an author a certain number of questions and received answers to them, though they were only whispered in confidence, one cannot be sure of having a complete grasp of him, even though these questions might seem at the furthest remove from the nature of his writings. What were his religious views? How did he react to the sight of nature? How did he conduct himself in regard to women, in regard to money? Was he rich, was he poor?[1]
Such queries led Sainte-Beuv
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Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve
Born
in Boulogne-sur-Mer, FranceDecember 23, 1804
Died
October 13, 1869
Genre
Literary History & Criticism, Romance, Poetry
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Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve was a literary critic and one of the major figures of French literary history.
He was born in Boulogne, educated there, and studied medicine at the Collège Charlemagne in Paris (1824-27). In 1828, he served in the St. Louis Hospital. Beginning in 1824, he contributed literary articles, the Premier lundis of his collected Works, to the Globe newspaper, and, in 1827, he came, through a review of Victor Hugo's Odes et ballads, into close association with Hugo and the Cénacle, the literary circle that strove to define the ideas of the rising Romanticism and struggle against classical formalism. Sainte-Beuve became friendly with Hugo after publishing a favourable review of the author's work but later had an affair wiCharles Augustin Sainte-Beuve was a literary critic and one of the major figures of French literary history.
He was born in Boulogne, educated there, and studied medicine at the Collège Charlemagne in Paris (1824-27). In 1828, he served in the St. Louis Hospital. Beginning in 1824, he contributed literary articles, the Premier lundis of h