How to Read Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time

📚 Read the Great Books with Hardcore Literature: https://www.patreon.com/hardcoreliterature ———————————— 0:00 how to read Marcel Proust 2:00 what makes Proust difficult? 4:00 length and depth of the Search 6:00 Proust book club lecture series 8:00 why read Marcel Proust? 10:00 recovering the past in art 12:00 Proust as wisdom literature 14:00 don’t read - live the book 16:00 make a meal of your reading 18:00 discovering art and music 20:00 cross-pollinate your books 22:00 the healing power of Proust 24:00 journey vs destination thinking 26:00 what is Proust’s Search about? 28:00 Monty Python Proust Contest 30:00 the implicit vs explicit story 32:00 modernist memoir fiction 34:00 story of becoming a writer 36:00 who is the narrator character? 38:00 real life biographical inspiration 40:00 Marcel Proust vs Sainte-Beuve 42:00 how to read church architecture 44:00 warning on biographical readings 46:00 artist soul vs man’s social self 48:00 seperating artists from their work 50:00 moralising about great writers 52:00 why did Proust write the Search? 54:00 Proust’s Combray ‘Overture’ 56:00 losing Mama’s goodnight kiss 58:00 why Proust became a recluse 1:00:00 what is the search for lost time? 1:02:00 novels vs sculpture, art, music 1:04:00 subjectivity of passing time 1:06:00 involuntary memory in Proust 1:08:00 the famous Madeleine scene 1:10:00 Proustian close reading together 1:12:00 the evocative sense of smell 1:14:00 memories out of a cup of tea 1:16:00 how to uncover the lost past 1:18:00 how great art can defeat time 1:20:00 Proust’s publishing rejection 1:22:00 getting into ‘Swann’s Way’ 1:24:00 Swann vs Guermantes Way 1:26:00 bourgeois vs aristocracy 1:28:00 relation of society and self 1:30:00 perspective changes character 1:32:00 what was the Dreyfus Affair? 1:34:00 complexity of social dynamics 1:36:00 French socio-historical context 1:38:00 influence of First World War 1:40:00 the structure of the Search 1:42:00 best translation for Proust? 1:44:00 Remembrance of Things Past 1:46:00 Everyman vs Penguin vs Oxford 1:48:00 Moncrieff translation of Proust 1:49:00 Lydia Davis translation of Proust 1:50:00 Moncrieff-Kilmartin-Enright 1:52:00 Brian Nelson translation of Proust 1:53:00 recommended pacing for Proust