Readings, conversations and thoughts from Marcel Proust's Masterpiece: "In Search of Lost Time"!
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Reading and commentary from the last part of Combray, and a Summary.
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11 Nov 2020
#16 - The Madelaine Cookie, and nature of Memory.
The hidden memories - and the famous scene of the Madalaine cake that opens the Past for Marcel.
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3 Nov 2020
#15 - The mother reads for Marcel, and we drift back into the present.
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3 Nov 2020
#14 - Marcel's mother comes, and his father too.
A pivotal moment in little Marcel's self understanding as a little boy, and his own nervous nature.
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3 Nov 2020
#13 - Marcel is waiting, and Mr. Swann leaves. His father goes up to bed.
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1 Nov 2020
#12 - Little Marcel is sending a note, to his mother.
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27 Oct 2020
#11 - Swann's thoughts on books, and Marcel goes to bed without the Kiss.
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12 Jan 2020
#10 - M. Swann, and young Marcel missing the Good Night kiss of his Mother.
We are now into the more elaborate parts of Proust's descriptions of early life and people and events in minute detail. Main topics are social class in the aristocratic France of the late 18 hundreds, his family members and their views on people and vanity, and the young boy's very strong attachment to his mother and the fear of missing the good night kiss when his parents have visitors.
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10 Jan 2020
#9 - Life as a series of little galleries of memories, and images.
How a person is constructed in the minds of others, and how time and life could be seen as a succession of stages like little galleries of experiences and visual memories.
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8 Jan 2020
#8 - M. Swann, and his father's loss of his Wife.
In this episode we are getting more into the storytelling Proust, with 2,5 pages of details of early life and the people around the main person. M. Swann is given a prominent position in these early outlines of his younger years.
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1 Jan 2020
#7 - Childhood memories, and the longing for a good-night kiss.
Marcel's early childhood comes more clearly into focus.
24 Dec 2019
#6 - The Magic Lantern with images projected in light on the walls of Marcel's Childhood Room
The childhood room as a symbol of the psyche, and extension of the childhood self.
22 Dec 2019
#5 - Childhood memories of rooms and places, as the memory blends with dreaming.
Marcel is falling more asleep, and the world of his early childhood becomes more vivid and present.
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21 Dec 2019
#4 - Re-finding the world when waking up.
How the mind gradually reassambles the self and the surroundings when waking up.
17 Dec 2019
#3 - Dreams and journeys, and the elusive mind.
Proust is easing in the childhood memories, as he is gradually falling asleep.
16 Dec 2019
#2 - Proust is about to fall asleep, and the memories and beauty appears to him.
Reading paragrah two and three, from the opening :)
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16 Dec 2019
#1 - The Opening of "In Search of Lost Time"
The opening moments of Marcel Proust's novel, when he is about to fall asleep - and is partly dreaming.
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