Ever been curious about all the fuss surrounding Proust's gargantuan novel? This is a weekly livestream series designed to make it as accessible as possible. It provides a close analysis of Proust's "In Search of Lost Time" discussing what makes it such a special piece of literature, how ahead of its time it was in terms of its psychological insight, and how reading it can provide great "textual healing" for the stresses of everyday life. #Proust #bookclub #literaryanalysis
Curated by: Readers of the Lost Art (15 videos)
Current section being read - Combray II This week we continue our attempt to pick up the pace a bit - appropriately enough we start with he arrival of the cavalry and a sentence that reminds me of an old Ken Dodd joke (which will be explained in the live stream) : "Sometimes I would be torn from my book in the middle of the afternoon by the gardener’s daughter, who came running wildly, overturning an orange-tree in its tub, cutting a finger, breaking a tooth, and screaming “They’re coming, they’re coming!” (page 121 of the Modern Libary edition, page 99 of the Yale University Press edition) We will attempt to reach the end of the quite traumatic scene in which Mademoiselle Vinteuil desecrates the memory of her recently deceased father: "Perhaps she would not have thought of evil as a state so rare, so abnormal, so exotic, one in which it was so refreshing to sojourn, had she been able to discern in herself, as in everyone else, that indifference to the sufferings one causes which, whatever other names one gives it, is the most terrible and lasting form of cruelty." (page 233 Modern Libary/page 189 - Yale University Press). This concluding section is, to my mind, one of the most disturbing scenes in the whole book ... #proust #rembranceofthingspast #insearchoflosttime #books #memory #literaryanalysis #persistenceofmemory