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Welcome to Proust Curious, a podcast about the experience of reading Proust's "A la Recherche du temps perdu" in its entirety. Hosts Emma Claussen and Hannah Weaver hold PhDs in French Literature, but neither of us works on Proust or his period. By getting out of our lanes, we aim to dramatize the experience of reading critically for discovery and even, dare we say, pleasure.  Proudly in partnership with Public Books; visit publicbooks.org.  Write us at [email protected].
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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
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