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Reading group on Marcel Proust | Institut français | London | 7 July 2022

 

Reading Group on In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower by Marcel Proust, 7 July 2022, at the Institut français, London

Dive deep in Marcel Proust’s oeuvre In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower with a reading group at the Institut français in London. Whether you’ve read it or not, explore in English or French how Proust introduced some of his greatest comic inventions, and two figures who for better or worse are to dominate the narrator’s life: the Baron de Charlus and the mysterious Albertine. 

Thu 7 July 6.30pm
1h30 | in English and French | £5 non-members, £3 members

You can find information on the book in English on the British publisher’s website.

Billets, Parution

Michael Lucey | What Proust Heard | The university of Chicago Press | 2022

Michael LUCEY,  What Proust Heard, Novels and the Ethnography of Talk, Chicago, The University of Chicago Press, avril 2022

 
Michael Lucey offers a linguistic anthropological analysis of Proust’s In Search of Lost Time.
 
What happens when we talk? This deceptively simple question is central to Marcel Proust’s monumental novel In Search of Lost Time. Both Proust’s narrator and the novel that houses him devote considerable energy to investigating not just what people are saying or doing when they talk, but also what happens socioculturally through their use of language. Proust, in other words, is interested in what linguistic anthropologists call language-in-use. 

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Parution

Christopher Prendergast | Living and Dying with Marcel Proust | Waterstones | 2022

 

Christopher PRENDERGAST, Living and Dying with Marcel Proust, Londres, Waterstones, 13 janv. 2022

From vibrant character portraits to the intricacies of the famous Proustian sentence, Professor Christopher Prendergast delivers a beautifully wrought map to the sensuous, psychologically surgical and deeply philosophical universe Proust created in his In Search of Lost Time.

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Saul Friedländer | Proustian Uncertainties | Other Press | 2020

 

Saul FRIEDLÄNDER, Proustian Uncertainties : On Reading and Rereading In Search of Lost Time, New York, Other Press, 8 dec. 2020 

 

Named a Times Literary Supplement Best Book of the Year

A Pulitzer Prize–winning historian revisits Marcel Proust’s masterpiece in this essay on literature and memory, exploring the question of identity—that of the novel’s narrator and Proust’s own.

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