Proust - A Collection of Critical Essays
| Author | René Girard (editor) |
|---|---|
| Published | 1962 |
| Format | Book |
TL;DR — A 1962 anthology of criticism on Proust edited by René Girard for Prentice-Hall’s Twentieth Century Views, with essays by Poulet, Spitzer, Brée and others.
A volume in Prentice-Hall’s Twentieth Century Views series (1962), edited by René Girard, who contributes the introduction. It gathers essays on Proust and Remembrance of Things Past by Robert Vigneron, Henri Peyre, Jacques Rivière, Albert Thibaudet, Walter A. Strauss, Germaine Brée, Georges Cattaui, Elliott Coleman, Leo Spitzer, Richard Macksey, Robert Champigny, Charles Du Bos, Ramon Fernandez and Georges Poulet, along with a short text by Proust himself, a chronology and a bibliography.
Girard’s introduction sketches Proust’s life and argues for a reading of the novel close to the one in his own Deceit, Desire, and the Novel of the year before.
What it is: a standard mid-century critical anthology. This copy is a scan of an out-of-print but in-copyright book.
Where this came from
- A copy saved in October 2026.
193 pages. A PDF copy is held in Kyle’s private archive; it is not linked or shared here.