Marcel Proust - In Search of Lost Time Audiobook

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Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time is one of the longest novels ever written. It's very beautiful - and in a way a little boring too. This is for all those among us who suffer from insomnia - to send you into the best kind of sleep.
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“Marcel Proust was an early 20th-century French writer responsible for what is officially the longest novel in the world: À la recherche du temps perdu - which has 1,267,069 words in it; double those in War and Peace. The book was published in French in seven volumes over 14 years:
Du côté de chez Swann, 1913
À l’ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs, 1919
Le Côté de Guermantes, 1920
Sodome et Gomorrhe, 1922
La Prisonnière, 1923
Albertine disparue, 1925
Le Temps retrouvé, 1927
It was immediately recognised to be a masterpiece, ranked by many as the greatest novel of the century, or simply of all time.”
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@haruka1378 Жыл бұрын

Alain’s voice was already so soothing in the regular videos, this is like heaven!

@krutibhavsar9534 Жыл бұрын

Couldn't agree more...

@realbobbyaxel Жыл бұрын

Alain de Botton and his voice are the cornerstone of the school of life

@Kemo___ Жыл бұрын

It's strikingly beautiful how Proust so lucidly and accurately describes the most subtle and overlooked thoughts and emotions.

@BarbaraT. Жыл бұрын

Can we all just agree on the fact that Proust understood everything, wrote of it beautifully and nothing else makes sense? ☺

@jbri1 Жыл бұрын

@@BarbaraT. of course we can't. We can't all agree on anything.

@Pixel1962 Жыл бұрын

It’s a revelation to me; I have never read/heard Proust before, and this sounds like a fantastic translation.

@kriola84 Жыл бұрын

Thank you thank you thank you. Such a good idea to have Alain De Botton and his soothing voice on a proust story!

@Carmen-mp3je Жыл бұрын

He has a beautiful voice ❤ is one of the things I love the most of his channel, his calmed voice to explain complex emotions and make me feel it’s ok to feel and be unwell

@secretjosh5619 Жыл бұрын

Whoah whoah whoah. When did my favourite practical philosophy channel turn into an ASMR channel?? Well, I'm not complaining. I need to sleep soon anyway.

@theschooloflifetv Жыл бұрын

We're always looking to try new things! And a film that can finally send us to sleep is a useful one indeed.

@ryanjeanes5253 Жыл бұрын

@@theschooloflifetv Thank you, Alain.

@anonymity101 Жыл бұрын

@@theschooloflifetv sir you are love

@pinabaker8339 Жыл бұрын

Love love love this! Am reading ISOLT at the moment. Any chance you can eat the whole the lot?

@zeev Жыл бұрын

when it needs more hits. this is the problem with the internet. and social media. success and winner is incentivized to be greedy. not saying SoL is greedy, but this is the incentive framework.

@BarbaraT. Жыл бұрын

My favourite book. Ever. It's not going to send me to sleep but THANK YOU anyway. Nothing could make me happier than listening to Alain reading Proust.

@charlespaxson2679 Жыл бұрын

Two weeks ago I finished Swann’s Way. Months of reading in the morning as I adopted it as my morning spiritual book. When good things happen to me these days, they are accepted poignantly like the anticipation of the mother’s kiss, he knows she’ll be returning downstairs soon. Thank you Alain. Beautiful. Wonderful to be in this company.

@jeselsanches4444 Жыл бұрын

I wish Alain would narrate all of Proust.

@theschooloflifetv Жыл бұрын

Let's see how this one goes down - then we'll see!

@kevinwoodfield240 Жыл бұрын

I’d pay for this in a heartbeat

@bajolunapod Жыл бұрын

@@theschooloflifetv yes please. Audiobook by you is the only possible shot I'm ever 'reading' this masterful but looooooong book. :)

@JanGotner Жыл бұрын

How DARE you call Proust boring. When reading In Search of Lost Time I literally can't get my eyes off the text. His descriptions of social interactions, of dinners, balls, parties are intoxicatingly exciting. Reading Proust is a raging ride! :D

@tonatiuhnino3711 Жыл бұрын

Alain has the best ASMR voice ever.

@MarioDuarteMD19 Жыл бұрын

Can we please have much more of this.

@tinkageorgewilliam871 Жыл бұрын

In the stillness of the night When the world is fast asleep I lie awake, my mind aflight With thoughts that dance and leap Insomnia, my old friend You plague me once again And yet, in your embrace I find a certain grace For in the silence of the night I am free to roam and roam To explore the depths of my mind And find a world all my own So while others dream and rest I wander in this waking dream And though it may be a curse It is also a blessing, it seems For in the hours of the night I find a kind of clarity A space to think and write And create, so willingly So thank you, insomnia For giving me this gift Of time to be alone And to explore, to sift Through all the thoughts and feelings That linger in my soul And to weave them into words That make me whole.

@deborahhercodbooth8011 Жыл бұрын

Is this poem your own? It’s so true.

@tinkageorgewilliam871 Жыл бұрын

@@deborahhercodbooth8011 Yeah. I've been trying out poetry on various topics. It's unpublished though

@samijefetai6435 Жыл бұрын

👌👍

@realitywinner7582 8 ай бұрын

excellent - God Bless !

@marthasolomon7997 Жыл бұрын

I put on Alain's videos in a playlist to sleep because his voice is so soothing and cozy like sitting near a fire in the winter and it's drizzling ...and add Proust to that and I'm off ❤️ i wish he'd do the book of disquiet by Fernando pessoa

@smyerskelley Жыл бұрын

oh my gosh, what an incredible idea!

@Sussyphis Жыл бұрын

Iv had insomnia for a week, your videos are timed perfectly for me

@WriterusAeternus Жыл бұрын

I was starting to fall asleep until the ad popped up and woke me up. 😢

@theschooloflifetv Жыл бұрын

Thank you, we have now turned off mid roll ads on this film.

@furiosaningveryserious7104 Жыл бұрын

Oh my goodness. It’s a god send !! 🥰🥰I listen to your “how Proust changes our life “ all the time… how to put a book down… how friends really don’t matter in the end… i find so much consolation in your voice L. Thank you. My students also love you. ❤️❤️🌈

@moe42o Жыл бұрын

This is awesome. Reminds me of the best times of my life. Fishing early morning, from my little rowboat. Whilst everything is still and quiet, everyone in the cabin is sleeping deep in dreams. Something so cathartic about watching and listening to the world slowly wake in the morn.

@Inevitable.Change Жыл бұрын

I'll just grab some Chamomile and settle into a warm daze before bed. Your voice is incredibly reassuring and soothingly clear.

@Hola-jg8oh Жыл бұрын

What a treat! Thank you School of life for this beautiful treasure!! You make me happy and full of peace ❤

@acs2735 Жыл бұрын

I LOVE PROUST! When I was 21, I could translate him fluidly. 29 years later… not so much. Beautifully read! ❤

@ariskrisn Жыл бұрын

Woww that's great! As you did at 21, I'm still on progress to translating Du côte de chez Swann from French into Indonesian. Just started a month ago

@Seven7Sense Жыл бұрын

I love how the channel is embracing ASMR 😴

@dandanovich6729 Жыл бұрын

That was great. I certainly need more of such books in your voice. Thanks plenty 😊

@christineduong5480 Жыл бұрын

I need this on spotify so I can hear Alain's soothing voice luring me into sleep

@saltynebula Жыл бұрын

Did they found out that I use their philosophy playlist to help me sleep???! 👁️👄👁️

@jacsulex Жыл бұрын

Yeah! It's actually a great idea, @TheSchoolofLife! Been thinking about reading this book since I heard it from one of your videos! I know it's soooo long, but it must be great. I can feel how in love you are with Proust's. I'm not sure I'd be able to read it, but so glad you read an excerpt for us, we have a glimpse of that great book! Am actually searching for some boredom and Insomnia. My busy-ness doesn't allow me to get either of those.

@ianbarbizaniransoli Жыл бұрын

I was waiting for something like this to happen… this is superb.

@mridularobert5165 Жыл бұрын

We need the entire book in Alain's voice!

@krutibhavsar9534 Жыл бұрын

It is healing me. His voice is so soothing.

@martinsapsitis4292 Жыл бұрын

Thank you Alain, for the Proust introduction and committed generosity of thoughtful share.

@declanknittel Жыл бұрын

Alain is a genius. Thank you for all that you do!

@k0mmunicat0r Жыл бұрын

wow so good to hear you again Alan!

@2therazor Жыл бұрын

Ohhhh boy that soothing voice is what I needed.

@khatunakvintskhadze2401 Жыл бұрын

Please continue reading Proust!

@TheJaseku Жыл бұрын

I love this so much. Thank you for doing this.

@furzebush7 Жыл бұрын

Thanks so much. It really works and is so interesting and revealing of Proust. I did think it wouldn't send me to sleep, but it did, magically

@jibanikaram Жыл бұрын

Thank you for this ! Love love it ❤

@saracampo4723 Жыл бұрын

this is the most beautiful thing…thank you so much

@vaidascivilis4156 Жыл бұрын

What a fantastic voice and the reading text, sheer pleasure. ❤

@abenezerbirhanuzeleke2920 Жыл бұрын

thank you. please we need the wool book if you can .you're voice the way you narrate I can't even say. thank you

@laurencereconnu2961 Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much, Alain. This is so beautiful and soothing! I miss your voice.

@goober123cool Жыл бұрын

If Alain could set aside 1-2hr cumulative per week to record In Search for Lost Time, I would pay $79 for the audiobook in the year 2030 when it’s finally finished haha

@theschooloflifetv Жыл бұрын

That's a deal!

@tomdooley6713 Жыл бұрын

Does anyone know where I can find more footage like this? Alain's reading is beautiful, but even just watching that rain over the water in silence has made me more peaceful than I can describe.

@maryamomar3589 Жыл бұрын

Please for the love of god make more of these. I’d even pay

@keerongill7310 Жыл бұрын

Where tf was this last night , now it's 8 am and I've had 20 minutes of sleep lol

@theschooloflifetv Жыл бұрын

Good news, it will still be here tonight!

@LimitlessHoops Жыл бұрын

The best 20 of your life is coming up!

@jib4733 Жыл бұрын

Coulda used this before I had to go to class on three hours of sleep 😭😭

@BixASMR Жыл бұрын

This video is divine and has been added to my sleep/ASMR playlist 🪶

@vida9970 Жыл бұрын

Hope like Alain’s voice returning back on videos, articles of the school of life also to become like past a free huge handbook of wisdom.

@palomawhite6210 Жыл бұрын

Beautiful idea 🙂

@nizasiamehenry Жыл бұрын

Thank you ❤️

@TheyCallMeNewb Жыл бұрын

I may just bookmark this one. Thoroughly sterling show.

@angelarusso2553 3 ай бұрын

I can not count the amount of times ive heard this to sleep

@pacolli Жыл бұрын

I’m so into it!!! ❤ Alain!

@soulfulandallthat Жыл бұрын

Soothing ❤️

@mooxart64 Жыл бұрын

I always thought his voice was a good fit for ASMR content, I am just surprised it took them so long to have a video of this haha!

@BarbaraT. Жыл бұрын

His voice is stupendous! In the very early days of The School of Life every single video was voiced by Alain de Botton. When, after a while, they began to use other voices I was so disappointed. I obviously understand the practicality of having other people lending their voices, and my disappointment is no reflection on the quality of their contributions at all, but it just isn't the same.

@mooxart64 Жыл бұрын

@@BarbaraT. Oh yes I agree, I remember the only other voice I absolutely loved deeply was the woman who talked on their " On Feeling Melancholy " video. That one helped me a lot. Topic was very soothing, as much as her voice was.

@BarbaraT. Жыл бұрын

@@mooxart64 I'll have to rewatch that video. I remember it, but don't recall the voice. I know what you mean though; much of The School of Life's work has inspired, consoled and soothed me. I hope you're having a serene December.

@icitlalistardust9060 Жыл бұрын

My favorite joke about the author for decades : « For a longtime I went to bed early »… and thanks to Proust I felt asleep very quickly ! But then, I am French, so everybody here knows the first sentence of « A La recherche du temps perdu »

@richardedward123 Жыл бұрын

And I thought I'd never be able to read Proust. I still think I'm right. But this ain't bad. Thank you!

@wendylewis4591 Жыл бұрын

Omg this is brilliant❤

@animamagna3077 Жыл бұрын

I can only wish Alain De Botton continued his enchanting reading. With my many thanks for this piece.

@gotthatlogb7696 Жыл бұрын

watching this at 4am, I feel so sleepy now

@polynull7072 Жыл бұрын

I couldn't believe that I would love this channel even more ❤️❤️🥺🥹, More videos please, maybe some more like this and some other that can be more thought provoking but not much of an advice at the same time. I'm glad Alain came back to the channel and waiting for more videos ❤️❤️.

@zelleh8847 Жыл бұрын

Wooooooow a dream come true !

@TundeEszlari Жыл бұрын

Sensational video. 😊

@CareerDropout. Жыл бұрын

This is such an old method that still works today. Most are late receiving the info

@JustinFisher777 Жыл бұрын

These are the best bits of Proust though. De Botton never talks about the hundreds of pages of inane party gossip in the middle that I can't manage to get through. If only it were all like this.

@Pixel1962 Жыл бұрын

Aha! Thanks for that, I didn’t know it.

@elvansavkl7972 Жыл бұрын

I love Alan's voice.

@RabbyBabu Жыл бұрын

I didn't think this would actually help me. I still don't know to be honest, but can we have more of this? I'm tired of my insomnia 😔

@daysarelimited Жыл бұрын

My problem with insomnia is that my mind is the most creative when the light is off and ideas just keep popping up in my head whenever I try to sleep ._.

@nabeeltharani2950 Жыл бұрын

Amazing!

@KoolT Жыл бұрын

Pack your troubles up for tomorrow, don't drink coffee after lunch and don't watch the news. Smile at 5 people daily.

@realitywinner7582 8 ай бұрын

Now you said it !! God Bless !

@jc6168 Жыл бұрын

Very cool, but what is this translation? So much more beautiful here: "Sometimes, too, as Eve was created from a rib of Adam, a woman would be born during my sleep from some misplacing of my thigh. Conceived from the pleasure I was on the point of enjoying, she it was, I imagined, who offered me that pleasure. My body, conscious that its own warmth was permeating hers, would strive to become one with her, and I would awake. The rest of humanity seemed very remote in comparison with this woman whose company I had left but a moment ago; my cheek was still warm from her kiss, my body ached beneath the weight of hers. If, as would sometimes happen, she had the features of some woman whom I had known in waking hours, I would abandon myself altogether to this end: to find her again, like people who set out on a journey to see with their eyes some city of their desire, and imagine that one can taste in reality what has charmed one’s fancy. And then, gradually, the memory of her would fade away, I had forgotten the girl of my dream. When a man is asleep, he has in a circle round him the chain of the hours, the sequence of the years, the order of the heavenly bodies."

@xvbd6067 Жыл бұрын

its like a little piece of mercy in the internet

@SuperGreatSphinx Ай бұрын

Mercy en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercy

@gracefitzgerald2227 Жыл бұрын

Mr. Botton talking Proust?! I don’t care if he was shouting it. Straight to favorites!

@howtoceline Жыл бұрын

Love this! Next time whispered? 😊🌞

@DerekWoolverton Жыл бұрын

There's a short glitch near the end where a word or two repeats in the @25:00 minute.

@drbalbon7332 Жыл бұрын

I'm debating whether to actually read Proust or not. It seems like a huge commitment, one that makes War and Peace look like a casual evening's yarn.

@mb4472 Жыл бұрын

If you are a reader generally, then the idea of reading 7 books isn't that outlandish? There's no rush anyway, I took a year over it, using "the corklined room" blog as a guide and it's been a life enhancing gift to self.

@fumetsu4323 Жыл бұрын

I was in many stories during sleep, but what's common about it they all somehow got to wake me up in some cruel way. As example I was a noble of middle Ages and quickly from simple routine tricked to sacrifice own bloodline for evil entity in most cruel way with own hands and on next day go for suspecting ones to make intrigue go on.

@jbri1 Жыл бұрын

This is nice

@miiiaaaooowww Жыл бұрын

And it's read by Alain de Botton. Perfect❤️

@oleg_artene Жыл бұрын

ASMR is about something that produces tingly sensation on head and back skin. ASMR is not about calming or sexy gentle stuff.

@darshanpatil7777 10 ай бұрын

Please do more videos like this.

@The_Wanderer_And_His_Shadow 8 ай бұрын

It is beautiful.

@rex-up9ln Жыл бұрын

Ah Finally I can sleep again

@docm27 Жыл бұрын

Anyone who managed to get to volume 6 must be far more patient than I could ever be.

@mikaeldume Жыл бұрын

The Voice ,Divinity in Motion.😴

@travislund3043 6 ай бұрын

Is there a way to hear the whole thing? I looked up the School of Life and cannot find the Audiobook. I would like to hear the entire series from you.

@cafebrasileiro Жыл бұрын

this should work.. I always sleep when trying to read this book hahahha

@nkvrbyv Жыл бұрын

Can you read the whole book please?

@Curious68 Жыл бұрын

This would be great if it didn't have ads screaming every few minutes 😞

@theschooloflifetv Жыл бұрын

Thank you, we have turned them off now

@meganeffy1 6 ай бұрын

Proust-a really interesting writer.

Жыл бұрын

we need ALL 7 books

@pinalimon Жыл бұрын

For those who suffer from insomnia, besides Proust, try any law book, the thicker the better. Cheap insomnia pill, lasts forever and has no side effects. Good sleep 💤💤💤

@TheTCPTalk 9 ай бұрын

oh god someone pls tell me which translation is alain using here?? I tried so many but none match this one!!!

@theschooloflifetv 9 ай бұрын

It;s this one: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/292003/swanns-way-by-marcel-proust/#:~:text=About%20Swann's%20Way&text=Now%2C%20Penguin%20Classics%20brings%20Proust's,the%20first%20volume%2C%20Swann's%20Way.

@tsundoku97 Жыл бұрын

2 months of insomnia… hoping to change this in the last week of 2022

@Lisajen-h5u Жыл бұрын

Is that Lake Louise in Canada?

@workinprogress0123 Жыл бұрын

I actually fell asleep

@slobodantalic6103 Жыл бұрын

How to mediate in a conflict between people with opostite needs?

@liyzette Жыл бұрын

Any chance you could edit the audio and reduce the sharpness of the “s” and “tch” sounds? I can unfortunately not use this for falling asleep because of those sounds being so loud in this… 😢