L’archéologie de Contre Sainte-Beuve dans l’évolution créatrice de Proust

To reconstitute the reasons which led Proust to conceive of the idea of the dual personality of the artist, we have several resources at our disposition: correspondence, readings about Sainte-Beuve around 1904 on the occasion of the centenary of his birth, the broadsheet press, and meditations on some of the philosophical readings which ultimately determined the novelistic mise-en-scène of the thesis. These documents contain a range of possible significations.