Intro To One Minute Of Proust

Brief, easily digestible bits of Proust or examinations of Proust. Marcel Proust was a French novelist, literary critic, and essayist who wrote the monumental novel À la recherche du temps perdu (in French – translated in English as Remembrance of Things Past and more recently as In Search of Lost Time) which was published in seven volumes between 1913 and 1927.

Transcript

In one minute of Proust,

I can only give you a small taste of the rich and elaborate writing style of Marcel Proust.

Here it is.

The only true voyage of discovery,

The only fountain of eternal youth,

Would be not to visit strange lands,

But to possess other eyes,

To behold the universe through the eyes of another,

Of a hundred others,

To behold the hundred universes that each of them beholds,

That each of them is,

And this we do with great artists,

With artists like these we go in search of ourselves,

Of our own secret being.

This quote from In Search of Lost Time is just a small example of Proust's ability to capture the essence of human experience in a poetic and profound way.

His writing often explores themes of memory,

Identity,

Love,

And the human condition.

Reviews

Lovely, and thought provoking 😇🤔 i wanted it to not end! Thank you

I read Prouat on a long commute I did every day. I got on the train and went to Proust's France for an hour. It was wonderful. I'm going to listen to one of these a day and hope there are many more

Great minute!

Sounds very interesting! Thank you 💜

Really great encouragent to start reading Proust again...Thank you✨️💚☺️🙏🏽