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.
@neroresurrected6 жыл бұрын
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.
@matthewgordonpettipas67733 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.
@foodforthesoul40112 жыл бұрын
Thank you for sharing this the wonderful documentary with us all. A 58 minutes and 29 seconds well spent.
@richardwestwood82123 жыл бұрын
This is how a grand literary documentary should be made, bravo.
@jeffdawson27863 жыл бұрын
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...
@jeremylasley14026 жыл бұрын
Thank you so much for making this rare documentary available! I've been waiting a long time to see this appear on KZfaq.
@HZACHARY20046 жыл бұрын
Yes. This is great for Proust lovers.
@mariegiral-cordrey33584 жыл бұрын
wonderful documentary, thank you for uploading it and also thank them to the two academics (?) who talk so beautifully about Proust.
@daigreatcoat445 жыл бұрын
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?
@raymondravinsky64786 жыл бұрын
Great. Thank you!
@salemfathi20355 жыл бұрын
My doctoral thesis is on Proust and Flaubert
@jamesanthony56814 жыл бұрын
Two excellent subjects. Good luck.
@adelaidedupont90175 жыл бұрын
That extract about #suffering and #death was great. 29:30 - 29:40 as far as I can quote it.
@gregoryberrycone6 жыл бұрын
so good
@koosy29876 жыл бұрын
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?
@beastpoet43356 жыл бұрын
for sure
@himangshusarma76495 жыл бұрын
You should read the novel slowly.
@himangshusarma76495 жыл бұрын
You will find his thoughts in some of his essays in Against Sainte-Beuve, a book reconstituted from his early papers.
@elsaalcala54865 жыл бұрын
DIYselfies you... conceited!
@MrStiffie1234567894 жыл бұрын
You have to prove provenance.
@benulrand91374 жыл бұрын
Does anyone know what translation was used for the excerpts?
@yousukeangel6 жыл бұрын
Madeleine scene !! Wonderful!
@user-li4xn6gm1f6 жыл бұрын
Compare with James Joyce, who is greater ?
@user-li4xn6gm1f6 жыл бұрын
I admire Proust more than Joyce.
@senseis15 жыл бұрын
Proust is greater, of course :-)
@ehyjjy5 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.
@dkb2194 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.
@normadesmond60174 жыл бұрын
compare the Mona Lisa to the Girl with the pearl earring. There is no comparison.
@vaspers6 жыл бұрын
"Yet he was homosexual." Yet Proust denied this and made fun of homosexuality in his In Search of Lost Time novel.
@hansmahr86275 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.
@vaclavmiller80323 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.