Proust Curious
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This is the volume of Albertine's disappearance, first from the narrator's home, then from life, and finally from the narrator's memory. Hosts Emma Claussen and Hannah Weaver contemplate Proust's extended meditation on oblivion, love, jealousy, grief, and death. We discuss the careful rhythm of...
Published 11/25/24
Having returned to Paris with the narrator, hosts Emma Claussen and Hannah Weaver enter the claustrophobic and surveilled world of the household he has set up with his object of obsession, Albertine. In concert with the narrator, we ask: What does it mean to love someone? How (or to what extent)...
Published 11/11/24
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...
Published 10/28/24