Meridien, New York, 1958. Hardcover. Book Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good: Some fading to the spine. Text is clean, binding is tight. Wrapped in Brodart.  1st edition/1st printing in English. 416 pp. translated from the French by Sylvia Townsend Warner.

Beginning with Marcel Proust's remarkable essay "Contre Saint-Beuve" this surprising and stimulating critical collection presents Proust's views on the contemporary writing of his era, on painting and painters, and on such literary masters of the nineteenth century as Tolstoy, Goethe, and Stendhal.