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.
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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.
In their inaugural episode of Proust Curious, hosts Emma Claussen and Hannah Weaver begin their plunge into Proust with the first volume of the Recherche, Swann's Way. Proust's humor can often be lost in the haze of canonization, but that's where our curiosity turns today. We talk about psychedelic lime blossoms, seeing people through paintings, and the original deeply feeling kid. We consider the unity of this frequently-excerpted volume. Finally, we engage with Proust's careful misdirection about the nature of time at the end of the volume, which he wrote in a letter was "the opposite of [his] conclusion." Plus, we'll answer the question, If not yourself, who would you be? 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)
Emma and Hannah discuss this volume further [https://youtu.be/GQd-4i7DJUw?si=HBLhJn6tmL3uygUg]
Logo image [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Autographe_Proust_Intermittences.JPG]
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.
