TIME REGAINED (later evening)
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 fifth tour through the Search – each visit reveals new nuggets and gasping moments.
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, idealized experience (dreams) and relationships with what our senses perceive that moulds our consciousness.
*This study is now full. Please contact us if you have questions about starting In Search of Lost Time, we plan a new journey starting in January 2022.
SALON DETAILS
- Facilitated by Toby Brothers
- Wednesday evening 7.30-9.30 pm
- 11 Meeting study from 22 September – 9 December (N.B. no meetings on 29 September)
- Recommended edition: Vintage Classics (Moncrieff/Kilmartin/Enright)
- £280 for 11 meetings includes background materials, literary criticism, opening notes and discussion notes
- This is a VIRTUAL study with the possibility of meeting in person in London in due course if regulations allow and all participants agree.
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