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Critiques et portraits littéraires

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  • In Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve: Early critical and historical writings

    …him to collect them as Critiques et portraits littéraires, 5 vol. (1832–39). In these “portraits” of contemporaries, he developed a kind of critique, novel and much applauded at the time, of studying a well-known living writer in the round and entering into considerable biographical research to understand the mental attitudes…

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