Marcel Proust: A Writer's Life - Documentary Clip

This engrossing documentary traces the life of French writer Marcel Proust, considered by many to be the greatest novelist of the 20th century. Filmed on location in France, the film depicts Proust's struggle to create his 3,000-page masterpiece, "Remembrance of Things Past", the groundbreaking novel that has come to epitomize a genre. With dramatic re-enactments of key scenes from Proust's life, and with rare archival footage that brings to life the rich period of French history from 1870 to 1925, A WRITER'S LIFE shows how, after years of failure and bad luck, Proust finally found the key to his art - and the will to undertake what is perhaps the most ambitious novel ever conceived.
Clip from Marcel Proust: A Writer's Life; promotional release for the 100th anniversary publication of In Search of Lost Time, Volume 1, used with permission.
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New Yale University Press edition of In Search of Lost Time, Volume 1, edited and annotated by William C. Carter
Produced by William C. Carter, George Wolfe, Sarah P. Patton and Sarah Mondale. Directed by Sarah Mondale. Executive Producer, Paul Wagner. Narrated by Kate Nelligan.

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  • @Marcelita1913
    @Marcelita19137 жыл бұрын

    Here is the "Additional Music" listed in the documentary credits. Gabriel Fauré's "Piano Trio, Op.120" ; César Franck's "Violin Sonata in A for Violin and Piano" ; Gabriel Fauré's "Nocturne No. 3 in A♭ minor, Op. 33 No 3" and "Nocturne No. 11 in F ♯ minor, Op. 104 No 1" César Franck's "Prélude, Fugue et Variation, Op.18"

  • @pinksunami
    @pinksunami3 жыл бұрын

    I love Shelby Foote! Brilliant!!

  • @travisg1518
    @travisg15184 жыл бұрын

    Marcel Proust: "What a horrible life, I'm the living dead." (Proust's life for most of his later years). The guy was a big socialite with rich parents, who decided one day to retreat into a small apartment, line all the walls with corkboard to make it sound proof, and write his book. He was also obsessed with the town of Combray and the "Guermantes Way", some trail that meanders through the same village! Guy was obsessed with locales. But he was probably the first vocal supporter of refrigerated water, with his beautiful descriptions of a glass jar thrown into a stream, and his desire to drink the liquid rushing inside it, which was to him a very desirable refigerated cold beverage.

  • @Fuliginosus
    @Fuliginosus4 жыл бұрын

    I used to own the complete documentary, from which this clip is taken, on VHS. I wish I could find it on DVD.

  • @leslielees5438
    @leslielees54385 ай бұрын

    Too true. Like Shakespeare. His characters are various comical and monstrous but always fully human refracted through a great genius

  • @grapiken7766
    @grapiken77668 жыл бұрын

    He is a genius... But reading him is hard work

  • @wystanisles4094

    @wystanisles4094

    7 жыл бұрын

    Gra Piken not really pal

  • @grizzlyman87
    @grizzlyman877 жыл бұрын

    What is the violin piece when Proust is introduced?

  • @joao-geraldodamasceno1581
    @joao-geraldodamasceno1581 Жыл бұрын

    Proust e massa!!!

  • @ItsameAlex
    @ItsameAlex8 жыл бұрын

    1st

  • @tonywalton1052
    @tonywalton10525 жыл бұрын

    Donald Trump loves Proust, chiefly for the writers introspective way of writing

  • @zeantoniomagalhaes364

    @zeantoniomagalhaes364

    3 жыл бұрын

    There's no way that is true. He might think it's good to say he loves proust

  • @johnnylongfeather3086
    @johnnylongfeather3086 Жыл бұрын

    An effete, dandy

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