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He was born in Boulogne-sur-Mer on December 23, 1804.
He studied medicine at the Collège Charlemagne in Paris from 1824 to 1827.
The first major work of Saint-Beuve - "Tableau historique et critique de la poésie française et du théâtre français au XVI siècle" (Historical critical picture of French poetry and the French theater of the 16th century) 1828 - is devoted to the historical justification and justification of Romanticism as the completion of the authentic traditions of French literature, interrupted by the temporary dominance of classicism. To the period of friendship with a circle of romantics, marked by intensive work in the journal "Globe", refers also to the first attempt of Sainte-Beuve to say his word in the fiction - the book "Vie, poésies et pensées de Joseph Delorme" (1829). It is followed by two books of poems "Consolations" (1830) and "Pensées d'août" (1837) and the novel "Volupté" (1834) - the story of the self-absorbed and hedonistic soul. Artistic works of Sainte-Beuve did not have significant success, and from 1837 he devoted himself exclusively to historical, literary and critical work. The literary and life path of Sainte-Beuve was a way of searching. Shortly after the July Revolution, he broke off relations with the circle of Hugo and surrendered to new hobbies. Standing in sharp opposition to the July monarchy, he passed from sensitism to the Catholic ideas of Lamenne, combining ideological closeness to the literary leader of Republican France Carrel with active sympathy for the royalist salon Madame Recamie, changing the socialist Globe to the republican National and National on secular "Revue des Deux Mondes", leading continuously brilliant, passionate and accompanied by constant success of literary work. In 1837 Sainte-Beuve was invited to give lectures in Lausanne (Switzerland), where he began his monumental Histoire de Port-Royal, (1840-1860) - the most authoritative work on Jansenism. In 1844, the former romanticist Sainte-Beuve entered the French Academy, favored by the royalists and supporters of classicism, but in 1848 he published the book Chateaubriand et son groupe littéraire sous l'Empire, in which he sharply broke with monarchical and catholic tendencies. Later, he declared devotion to Napoleon III, who was showered with ridicule by the legitimists and Orleanists, in the last years of his life joined the "freethinkers", breaking with the empire.
In 1844 he was elected to the French Academy. After receiving the literature department at the University of Liege (Belgium), he delivered a lecture on Chateaubriand. During these years, Sainte-Beuu strengthened his authority as a critic. His articles with an analysis of the writings - modern and past centuries, or devoted to the most significant studies on them, were published in books Critical portraits littéraires (1832-1836), literary portraits (Portraits littéraires, 1862-1864) and Modern portraits (Portraits contemporains, 1869-1871). The most famous literary critical articles of Sainte-Beuve were included in the collections of Conversations on Mondays (Causeries du lundi, 1849-1861) and New Mondays (Nouveaux Lundis, 1861-1866). Sainte-Beuve was the founder of modern literary criticism, which, on the basis of an in-depth historical approach, evolved from art to science, with its own set of rules and requirements. For Sainte-Beuve, the literary work is inseparable from its creator, therefore its method is based on a scrupulous study of the biography of the author - including genealogy, the nearest family environment, religion, education, appearance, love relationships, financial position and weaknesses of character. Sainte-Beuve discovered features of similarity among writers of different, sometimes very far-away eras. The development of the method was promoted by the rare personal qualities of Sainte-Beuve: an exceptional sense of responsibility in establishing dates, names and titles, unlimited curiosity, wisdom and insight. Sainte-Beuve died in Paris on October 13, 1869.
Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve developed a very personal technique of literary criticism, and remains the most important literary arbiter of his century.
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An orthodox Catholic in the 1930s, he appeared in the sixties as a clever and courageous opponent of clericalism.
Quotations:
"With everyone born human, a poet - an artist - is born, who dies young and who is survived by an adult. "
"Nature wants us to enjoy life to the full and die without giving it a second thought; Christianity wants the opposite. "
"Nothing is more painful to me than the disdain with which people treat second-rate authors, as if there were room only for the first-raters. "
"Despair itself if it goes on long enough, can become a kind of sanctuary in which one settles down and feels at ease. "
"I have always thought that if we began for one moment to say what we thought, society would collapse. "
"The nearest approach to the infallible in literary judgment is represented in the colossal work of the teacher of all these three [Edmund Gosse, Edward Dowden and George Saintsbury], the greatest critic that ever lived - not an Englishman, but a Frenchman, the wonderful Sainte-Beuve. "
"If you want to succeed, limit yourself. "
"If I had a device, it would be the true, the true only, leaving the beautiful and the good to settle matters afterwards as best they could. "
"Since it is necessary to have enemies, let us endeavour to have those who do us honour. "
"There are people whose clocks stop at a certain point in their lives. "
"A philosophical thought has probably not attained all its sharpness and all its illumination until it is expressed in French"
By 1826 he was contributing actively to the Globe, where an article favorable to Victor Hugo won him the young poet's confidence and a place in his Cénacle, or coterie, among the most innovative literary talents of the time. Saint-Beuve's Tableau historique et critique de la poésie française et du théâtre français au XVI siècle (1828) not only rehabilitated the neglected Pléiade poets (Pierre Ronsard, Joachim du Bellay) but laid a claim to respectability for his contemporaries, "romantic" descendants of those forgotten giants of lyricism. Sainte-Beuve's hesitation led literary historians to puzzle over the causes of such extraordinary variability and emphasize the extreme complexity of Sainte-Beuve's individuality. Sainte-Beuve himself, declaring himself "the most broken and inclined to metamorphosis mind", flirted with his ability to make the biggest turns, seeing in it the pledge of "superclass" of his judgments and that "non-partisanship" and "impartiality" that seemed to him, like to his bourgeois interpreters and followers, the most valuable quality of the thinker and critic. However, the scope of political and philosophical fluctuations of Saint-Beuve does not come out of the narrow framework of the petty-bourgeois worldview. With romanticists, Sainte-Beuu idealized the person who perishes in the vulgar kingdom of gain, and with the utopians he sought an ideal way out of this kingdom; drawing closer to Catholics and royalists, he mourned for the pre-capitalist past, sympathetically gravitating toward all offended by the rule of capital; in the hypocritical mode of the Second Empire he wanted to see a regime established by the "people" and directed against the rule of the bourgeoisie. Sainte-Beuve did not go over to the positions of proletarian socialism or the worldview of the industrial bourgeoisie. He was faithful to the end to the petty-bourgeois ideological conception, which was so fully expressed in Romanticism, from which Saint-Beve zealously rejected in later years, but who determined the theoretical prerequisites for his writings.
Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve was married Désirée Sainte-Beuve. They had a son.
1774 - 1834
1812 - 1872
