This is a repeating event- Event 8 / 1124 April 2023 12:30 pm22 May 2023 12:30 pm
Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time: FINDING TIME AGAIN (early afternoon)
Event Details
“Every reader finds himself. The writer’s work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it possible for the reader to discern what, without this book, he would perhaps never have seen in himself.”
Marcel Proust
After completing incredibly satisfying studies of Ulysses and Magic Mountain, we have turned to the next big mountain of Modernism, Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time. This is my sixth tour through the Search – each visit reveals new nuggets and gasping moments.
This is the final volume for the two groups that have been studying Proust for the last two years. If you are interested in reading Proust from the beginning, please watch the website for the next Proust cycle that will commence in the autumn of 2023 (you can also register to be alerted when the new Proust study is announced).
Here is how one Salonista describes the pleasure and work of reading Proust: ”This is a velvet jewel of a book that demands the attention of a lover full of enchantment and obsession, we need not get impatient as all good lovers perfect their art in taking their time.”
Reading Proust teaches the reader to observe how the world is experienced, to be aware that although humans are tempted to give greater weight to the perceptual universe, it is the entwining of memory, idealised experience (dreams) and relationships with what our senses perceive that moulds our consciousness.
SALON DETAILS
- Facilitated by Toby Brothers
- Mondays 12.30-2.30 pm
- Eleven meeting virtual study (via Zoom) from 6 March – 29 May 2023 (N.B. no meetings on 13 March, 1 May, 8 May) plus final meeting for the two study groups (early and later afternoon) together on 12 June, 4.30-7.00 pm
- Recommended edition: Penguin Classics Finding Time Again (Patterson/Prendergast) ISBN: 9780141180366 (the Vintage Classics edition: Time Regained ISBN: 978009936271 5 is also acceptable)
- £280 for 11 meetings includes background materials, literary criticism, opening notes and discussion notes
