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86 - Marcel Proust's Within a Budding Grove (In Search of Lost Time #2)
86 - Marcel Proust's Within a Budding Grove (In Search of Lost Time #2)
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Length:
70 minutes
Released:
Jul 4, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
David, Nick, and Nathan reconvene to continue their Proust pilgrimage, this time tackling the second volume, Within a Budding Grove. There is discussion around the narrator’s age — whether it be twelve or twenty-two, Proust certainly has a knack for combining the idealism and naiveté of youth with the insight and wisdom of adulthood. There is discussion around the book’s repetition of similar events and themes and how it is used to advance the book’s common aesthetic. And there is discussion around that (infamous?) wrestling scene between Gilberte and the narrator and just exactly what was transpiring amidst the perspiring. At the very least, this one is chock-full of wonderful Proust quotes, the beauty of which (we hope) carries the episode on its own.
Released:
Jul 4, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode
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