Welcome to Proustian Paths - the podcast channel that gives you different routes through Marcel Proust’s masterpiece, In Search of Lost Time.
In the main numbered episodes, join host Dr. James Holden for a guided walkthrough of this classic work of French literature. Then, in the ‘Shortcuts’ episodes, get ahead in your understanding with spoiler-filled discussions of key characters and concepts that range across the entire text.
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Welcome to Proustian Paths - the podcast channel that gives you different routes through Marcel Proust’s masterpiece, In Search of Lost Time.
In the main numbered episodes, join host Dr. James Holden for a guided walkthrough of this classic work of French literature. Then, in the ‘Shortcuts’ episodes, get ahead in your understanding with spoiler-filled discussions of key characters and concepts that range across the entire text.
Join your literary tour guide and host Dr James Holden for Episode 9 of Proustian Paths, in which we continue our gentle walk through Marcel Proust's masterpiece of French literature - A la recherche du temps perdu (In Search of Lost Time).
Today, we travel further through Swann’s Way. We discover how Charles Swann is excluded from the Verdurin salon. Love and jealousy abound as he storms home through the Paris night alone with the promise of other love affairs and piano music hanging in the evening air.
In this episode we will discuss:
Swann’s exclusion from the Verdurin salon
A performance of Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata for piano, played in the dark
The mutability of social truths
Proustian Paths is the perfect podcast for both first time readers of Proust's novel and dedicated Proustians alike. It is ‘a brilliant invitation into the world of Proust and the insights his work offers’.
Proustian Paths
Welcome to Proustian Paths - the podcast channel that gives you different routes through Marcel Proust’s masterpiece, In Search of Lost Time.
In the main numbered episodes, join host Dr. James Holden for a guided walkthrough of this classic work of French literature. Then, in the ‘Shortcuts’ episodes, get ahead in your understanding with spoiler-filled discussions of key characters and concepts that range across the entire text.
