I feel like I could be Proust's best friend when I read the novel, and this video only enhanced that. In fact we are his friends, in a way -- a marvelous thing about literature.

Thank you for sharing this the wonderful documentary with us all. A 58 minutes and 29 seconds well spent.

Brilliant documentary about the life of the greatest author of the 20th century. Proust will be remembered for all time. Thank you for uploading this for all of us Proust lovers to enjoy.

@matthewgordonpettipas6773

3 жыл бұрын

I agree Proust is one of the greatest authors of the 20th century, but greatest? I think that's an entirely subjective concept.

This is how a grand literary documentary should be made, bravo.

Thank you for this. La recherche is like life itself, at once real as flesh and blood, then elusive and ephemeral as a dream, all of it emerging from a madeleine dipped in tea...

Thank you so much for making this rare documentary available! I've been waiting a long time to see this appear on KZread.

This is easily the best documentary on Proust that I've seen. It would be great if a copy with clearer sound could be located. To see legendary figures like Gide and Morand, and Celeste Albaret herself (even if she does seem to be reading from an autocue) is marvellous. And the fragments of film and the old photographs help very much to set the scene. Is the footage relating to Dreyfus from Melies?

wonderful documentary, thank you for uploading it and also thank them to the two academics (?) who talk so beautifully about Proust.

Yes. This is great for Proust lovers.

Great. Thank you!

My doctoral thesis is on Proust and Flaubert

@jamesanthony5681

4 жыл бұрын

Two excellent subjects. Good luck.

That extract about #suffering and #death was great. 29:30 - 29:40 as far as I can quote it.

so good

Does anyone know what translation was used for the excerpts?

Madeleine scene ！！　Wonderful！

I have a painting that is probably done by Marcel Proust, it has been in my French family for decades and i wonder if art by Marcel would have some value. Anyone?

@beastpoet4335

5 жыл бұрын

for sure

@himangshusarma7649

5 жыл бұрын

You should read the novel slowly.

@himangshusarma7649

5 жыл бұрын

You will find his thoughts in some of his essays in Against Sainte-Beuve, a book reconstituted from his early papers.

@elsaalcala5486

5 жыл бұрын

DIYselfies you... conceited!

@MrStiffie123456789

4 жыл бұрын

You have to prove provenance.

Compare with James Joyce, who is greater ?

@user-li4xn6gm1f

5 жыл бұрын

I admire Proust more than Joyce.

@senseis1

5 жыл бұрын

Proust is greater, of course :-)

@ehyjjy

5 жыл бұрын

@@user-li4xn6gm1f I do too, but I believe it's a reader's subjective choice. The styles really are so different and their POV are so far apart. In a way, Joyce had more to prove because of his background/life, so he was always trying to be the best in the room. Proust didn't have this as his primary motivation, partially because of his pampered upbringing/life. It led to very different writings.

@dkb219

4 жыл бұрын

Whichever one one you prefer yourself, of course. All art is ultimately subjective. Its not like sport where one guy wins and the other loses.

@normadesmond6017

3 жыл бұрын

compare the Mona Lisa to the Girl with the pearl earring. There is no comparison.

"Yet he was homosexual." Yet Proust denied this and made fun of homosexuality in his In Search of Lost Time novel.

@hansmahr8627

5 жыл бұрын

'Yet Proust denied this' He denied it in public because gay people were persecuted, but in private, he was pretty open about it. You can read about it in Gide's journals and in the writings of Proust's friends. His own letters also make it pretty obvious.

@vaclavmiller8032

3 жыл бұрын

I think it's pretty much the consensus view in Proust scholarship that he was gay. I also think that taking ISLT as '[making fun] of homosexuality' is an incredibly shallow reading of the text.