How to Read Proust's 'In Search of Lost Time'

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BibliophileBeat
Mar 31, 2023

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0:00 how to read Proust's In Search of Lost Time
0:40 difficulty getting into Proust
1:25 choose the right time
1:40 the perfect lockdown books
2:44 Tolstoy vs Dostoyevsky
3:20 Clarissa, Don Quixote, Les Miserables
5:15 how to read slowly
6:45 how to journal about Proust
7:30 how to create a practice (morning/evening routines)
9:10 only read ~10 pages per sitting
10:30 the consciousness-expanding style of Proust
11:30 take it page by page
13:00 when to read Proust (morning or night?)
15:00 how to reread
15:30 In Search of Lost Time = literary art gallery
16:45 how to hunt for Easter eggs
18:05 the Art History approach to Proust
19:45 how to explore rabbit holes in your journal
20:45 the writer-reader collaboration
21:00 recap on the Proust Project ethos
23:45 Year of Proust
25:00 the Moncrieff-Kilmartin translation
26:00 hardback vs paperback (and marginalia)
27:00 how to choose the right time for Proust
28:00 join the Book Club