We will read "In Search of Lost Time" by Marcel Proust. Along with Proust we will use for reference several other great books about him and his work.


From The Proust Project:
Page 101

..”And how simple and direct that outburst of earnest grief, and how admirable his knowledge that it is always better to feel something, anything, than to feel nothing at all, that human beings should and want to feel things, and that we are each of us heat-seeking subjects starved for feeling, which is why, even at the risk of getting hurt or making tremendous fools of ourselves, we will not shirk from being drawn from certain places, to certain objects, certain odors, to art, to tears, to plants, to writing, to memory, to music, to vice, and, of course, to other human beings, because by so doing each of us finds a secret, private conduit to an inner life that is not just our new life but our true life.”

Andre Aciman

"Our mind will be like a radar newly attuned to pick up certain objects floating through consciousness. The book will have sensitized us, stimulated our dormant antennae by evidence of its own sensitivity."

Alain de Botton
The Proust Project
Ever Changing Morning: Page 43

FEATURED BOOK: Swann's Way



This group is a member of The Literature Reading Circle

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Other books:

*Marcel Proust: A Life by Jean-Yves Tadie

*Proust's Way by Roger Shattuck
*Proust's Binoculars by Roger Shattuck

*How Proust Can Change Your Life: Not a Novel by Alain De Botton

*The Proust Project Edited by Adre Aciman

*Proust Among the Stars by Malcom Bowie

*Cambridge Companion to Proust

*Lectures on Literature by Vladimir Nabokov [The Walk by Swann's Way]

*Proust and The Sense of Time by Julia Kristeva