Description
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) can we know anybody? How could jealousy be the key to understanding time? Plus, we'll answer the question, "What gift of nature would you like to have?" Join us as we search for lost time and remember things Proust.
Resources:
Proust Questionnaire [https://www.library.illinois.edu/rbx/kolbproust/proust/qst/]
In Search of Lost Time [https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/226026/the-modern-library-in-search-of-lost-time-complete-and-unabridged-6-book-bundle-by-marcel-proust-translated-by-c-k-scott-moncrieff-terence-kilmartin-and-andreas-mayor-revised-by-d-j-enright/](trans. Moncrieff, Kilmartin, and Mayor; rev. Enright)
Ottessa Moshfegh, My Year of Rest and Relaxation [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Year_of_Rest_and_Relaxation]
Victoria Baena, "In Search of Albertine" [https://yalereview.org/article/victoria-baena-in-search-of-albertine#:~:text=Victoria%20Baena%20is%20a%20Research,Los%20Angeles%20Review%20of%20Books]
Logo image [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Autographe_Proust_Intermittences.JPG]
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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
Hosts Emma Claussen and Hannah Weaver enter the glamorous and bleak world of fin-de-siècle Paris through the ironic gaze of the narrator. With new access to the chicest salons, their witty denizens, and their gauche intruders, the narrator finds himself a spectator at the drama of social...
Published 10/14/24