Against Sainte-Beuve a collection of critical articles and essays by Marcel Proust (18711922). Proust comes into dispute with the well-known literary critic Charles Augustin de Saint-Beuve (1804-1869), the founder of the biographical method in literary criticism. Sainte-Beuve relies primarily on personal acquaintance with writers, while Proust believes that the work creates a hidden, deep self of a person, separate from his public persona. Writers should be judged by their books, not by their authors. Leading a mental dispute with the late critic, Proust examines the poems of Charles Baudelaire and Gerard de Nerval, the novels of Gustave Flaubert and Honore de Balzac, Tolstoy and Dostoevsky, the paintings of Gustave Moreau, Antoine Watteau and Claude Monet . But “Against St. Beve” is not a set of dry theoretical essays, but a living literary narrative in which the hero-storyteller and his beloved mother exchange impressions. In the pages of the book, Proust the critic turns into Proust the writer, and from the articles is born "In Search of Lost Time" In PDF A4 format, the publishing layout of the book is saved.