Proust Curious is a podcast about the experience of reading À la recherche du temps perdu – all seven volumes. Written between 1906 and 1922, published between 1913 and 1927, Marcel Proust’s cultural touchstone is an object of enduring fascination and, let’s face it, intimidation. Hosted by Emma Claussen and Hannah Weaver, PhDs in French literature and decidedly not Proust experts.
Produced by Michael Goldsmith in partnership with Public Books; visit publicbooks.org.
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Proust Curious is a podcast about the experience of reading À la recherche du temps perdu – all seven volumes. Written between 1906 and 1922, published between 1913 and 1927, Marcel Proust’s cultural touchstone is an object of enduring fascination and, let’s face it, intimidation. Hosted by Emma Claussen and Hannah Weaver, PhDs in French literature and decidedly not Proust experts.
Produced by Michael Goldsmith in partnership with Public Books; visit publicbooks.org.
Join hosts Emma Claussen and Hannah Weaver for the fourth installment of Proust Curious. Perhaps more than the previous volumes, this volume really has an overriding theme: sexuality, and particularly homosexuality. The book comes back time and time again to the narrator's fearful but obsessional interest in homosexuality, which swings violently in tone from condemnation to detached amusement. It worries over the tangled relationship between jealousy and love. But it also turns a page in the calendar of feeling as a physical action leads the narrator to remember his beloved, dead grandmother when he returns to Normandy for a second visit. Plus, we wallow in the question, "What is your idea of misery?" Join us as we search for lost time and remember things Proust.
Resources:
Proust Questionnaire [https://www.library.illinois.edu/rbx/kolbproust/proust/qst/]
In Search of Lost Time [https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/226026/the-modern-library-in-search-of-lost-time-complete-and-unabridged-6-book-bundle-by-marcel-proust-translated-by-c-k-scott-moncrieff-terence-kilmartin-and-andreas-mayor-revised-by-d-j-enright/](trans. Moncrieff, Kilmartin, and Mayor; rev. Enright)
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Proust Curious
Proust Curious is a podcast about the experience of reading À la recherche du temps perdu – all seven volumes. Written between 1906 and 1922, published between 1913 and 1927, Marcel Proust’s cultural touchstone is an object of enduring fascination and, let’s face it, intimidation. Hosted by Emma Claussen and Hannah Weaver, PhDs in French literature and decidedly not Proust experts.
Produced by Michael Goldsmith in partnership with Public Books; visit publicbooks.org.
