Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time Summary (1.2 million words in 12 mins)
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In this video I am going to summarise In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust (a la recherche du temps perdu). Whether you want to read it or not, this will make it easy for you to understand this novel. After watching this video, you can pretty much know the essence of this novel and what it is about.
Marcel Proust is considered the best 20th-century French writer whose novel 'A la recherche du temps Perdu' (In search of Lost Time) goes deep into what it means to be human and by what philosophy we should live our life. in this video I will give you a full summary of this novel, in three different ways. A one sentence summary, a full on summary, and a book by book word summary. I will also tell you about two famous thinkers of the 19th century who might have inspired Proust.
Marcel Proust was a 20th Century French novelist who wrote in Search of Lost Time in French over a period of 14 years from 1913 to 1927.
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As I writer, I must say one has to be dedicated in his works. It's not easy to make a plot and put the ideas in your head into words. Hearing that Marcel Proust spent his whole life writing stories makes me revere him more. It's also depressing to hear he died without seeing the entire novel in print. RIP KING 👑
I think he spent the latter part of his life locked up in his apartment for about 15 years mostly writing this novel. Yes that’s dedication.
Wow, he's a productive loner. I love introverts :)
@@erinvale8988 i think that's true. sociable people are too happy to go through the labour of writing.
wat a fuckkkkwit........never LIVED a real life n struggled
I am here because i have a chance of gettong a high quality edition of the book "Sodem amd Gamhora" does that mean its not worth it because its in the middle of the series?
I've been reading this book for a decade. My bad, but I savor every nibble. I turn to it when I run dry. Thank you for this video!
This novel is a different reading experience so slow is perhaps the best. I too sometimes just open random pages and read. I’m glad you enjoyed the video
“My bad” ?
Thank you for your Proust videos. They have inspired me to finally tackle this monster. I loved the first book, read it surprisingly fast. I'm 65, so perhaps such a novel has special appeal. Some people climb Everest, others read Lost Time.
Writers are very emotional by nature .being a writer myself i was mesmerized listening this video. I actually could imagine Marcel sitting in a room with a window opening outside showing sea shore and blooming flowers and Marcel busy writing and writing for me today
I love Hesse for example Thomas Man writer in book write abaut strong imaginacion action in his novel but in real live he whose ordinary . Hesse writing the live story wich he flow wich he himself real expiriance . So autentic is for me one who take real expiriance so his tematic in books and his reality become same not oposite . Other thinks only writers are atist for me if they touch with spiritual way of thinking like Hesse do in Sidarta book. This is deep story and primary point to fokus in ones live why we are hier in this place in this planet . !00000people try write mosty are far from deep state of mind and live itself just make fiction but they dont undastand the deep state of universal truth, so this book are just ilusion for people wich are crying childe and you give them candy then stop cry.
Sei que vou parecer presunçoso, mas, por assim dizer, " descobri " Proust aos 30 anos, estou com 61 anos e já li e reli a série 6 vezes desde então. A cada releitura faço descobertas e com mais prazer que a anterior. Penso que Proust nos faz refletir sobre as nossas relações com as pessoas, com as coisas, com a vida. Quase todo dia, tomo um volume da estante e leio 10 páginas, aleatoriamente; é como ouvir uma frase de uma sinfonia. Proust é um mundo.
'The best novel ever written' - I've also heard this same phrase go with Ulysses, The Brothers Karamazov, Anna Karenina, Middlemarch and Crime & Punishment.
I have read Ulysses, brothers karamazov and crime and punishment. I still think in search of lost time is the best among them. But it’s of course subjective.
They're ALL the best.
I'd agree. I found in search of lost time the greatest novel. But I just like interior novels rather than plot-based novels. In search of lost time is by far my favourite novel ever.
I prefer novels with a great narrative at the heart but with great depth too. In search of lost time is less surface-level narrative focused but makes up with psychological insights.
@@Fiction_Beast I have read them all, as well, but this is in a league of its own.
For 10 months, I have been reading half of this book with my friends whom I call together in Online to read this difficult book. Useful materials. Thank you.
Great effort. Yes the novel is not a tough read but very rewarding!
I appreciate your video a lot. Proust is the greatest novelist of last century. I like to read some pages from time to time, in French language. In search of lost time deserves to be read slowly, with great lovely attention to every detail. A novel larger than life...we could live hundred of years and probably we wouldn't be able to read it thoroughly...
Simply the best novel. Thank you!
In Search of Lost Time by Proust is not just a novel it is an immersive world. I read it every year and still discover new joys
I am into the third volume, 'The Guermantes Way', and enjoying every page. This novel helps me to transcend time. Being a fan of Nietzsche ,maybe, I am enjoying more.
Awesome. I think Nietzsche connection is important to enjoy Proust even more.
Thank you for your insights into this fantastic book. I have finally finished the whole book and it was so enjoyable. There is a more direct delivery of his thesis in this book than others I believe and the clarity is refreshing. Not that I didn't enjoy all the tangential writing. All the amazing conclusions about Time, consiousness and existence are profound. Involuntary memory, created at the point of experience, slips into the past only to be retrieved when our senses align in the same way again. Wow.
Nice summary, thank you! In reading this particular novel, I do it slowly, taking in every sentence in an almost analytical way. Sometimes I'll reread paragraphs three times or more, searching out its deeper message, or sometimes for pure enjoyment. I don't feel the need to hurry along or skim over, but rather, slow down and dig in. These days, that's not a bad thing. Thanks again!
Appreciate it. Yes, reading him is a project, but enjoyable.
Yes, I started it, and I must say it has the longest sentences I have ever encountered. I put it down. I was not ready. But now I am.
That’s awesome to hear. Don’t read it for the plot or fast action. Read it for emotional insights, beautiful passages, and new ways of looking at yourself! Let me know how you’re getting on. Welcome to the Proust club. I made a couple of more videos on Proust if you like to watch.
I just watched your video about Proust in UA-cam. And I love your interpretation of the novel. And your interpretation is probably the only one I have ever loved. You're amazing!
Thank you so much! i am glad you like the summary!
Have you checked Leaf by Leaf?
I got the audiobook and is nice, like a play. Narrated by great actors. The ending, last 5 minutes i keep playing it on repeat. Then you feel the beautiful emotions of a great writer pouring in and the level of ecstasy he must have felt finishing it.
Underrated, I can’t imagine how long this must have taken
Love your commentary; very helpful. I just started reading Proust, and am 177 pages into Swan's Way.
How u feeling is it curious or is it just a story that goes on
Yes, I'm reading the English translation (C.K.Scott Moncrieff & Terence Kolmartin) and thanks for your video for my rescue. Readers or potential readers may be interested to watch video （1992）Marcel Proust : Une vie d'écrivain ( a writer's life) , which has Chinese and Spanish subtitles. There should be an English one too. Good Luck!
Just purchased a first volume and will begin reading it this weekend. Thanks for the video I have no idea what I was getting into besides the fact that his book is one of the books we should all read before we die.
I’m always pleased to see people reading Proust. It’s a commitment but you will be rewarded. My advice is read slow. Don’t worry about finishing it but enjoy the beautiful passages.
One weekend is not enough time, my firend!😜
Your video was a huge help to me in putting the whole book in context. Thank you!
Excellent summary! I have read this several times and love it more each time. Once I read it in the French, I saw that I had missed quite a bit. When Scott Moncrief said Proust was the most intelligent man who ever wrote a book, he was absolutely correct. Thank you for this enjoyable walk through the book.
Wonderful! I agree, he was a genius. Thank you for the comment!
Thanks, Matt. I haven't read the novel. I've lightly wondered about it for years, so it was nice to hear your summary and thoughts.
Glad it was helpful! you might also have a look at this video if you are interested in Proust. ua-cam.com/video/jT9LSdpfFvg/v-deo.html
Like so many other people i bought and attempted to read all six novels. And failed. After listening to your very interesting commentary I am very much tempted to take it up again.
I'm currently reading this novel and enjoying it immensely. Thank you for the review
I have read the entire novel and am in another re-read. I read a little Proust every night. When you finish the last novel, you feel compelled to begin again. Perhaps because you now are different self and read it differently the second (and the third) time. I'm taking a class through a university famous for teaching the classics.It is fabulous to have read it but re-experience others reading it for the first time. I did love your summary. Outstanding. If you teach a full course on the work, you should let us know. I don't even know your last name, so I don't know how to find other things you might have to say. I did subscribe.
That’s wonderful to hear. Yes reading proust is like reading poetry, philosophy and narrative at the same time.
I haven’t thought about teaching a course. Do you mean online? Or pre-produced videos? You have made me think :)
@@Fiction_Beast - I have just unpacked my volumes from years ago. I bought them and attempted them one summer, but I never finished. I would love a course dedicated to Remembrance of Things Past. If you ever decide to tackle it, send me a notification of some sort. I’ve liked and subscribed to your channel with alerts enabled. Much love to you!
To write a timeless novel, a novel about time was a genius idea. I have started to read volume 1. It will probably take about 1.2 years to read all volumes at my current speed. Or will it be easier from volume 2? The spines of your books clearly show that you spent more time reading Vol.1 and 6 than other volumes.
(p.s.)After 30 pages, reading became pleasant. An observant and sometimes cynical eye for the environment and psychology is amazing. I will continue to read without prejudice like his contemporaries must have done.
Excellent summary! I must read the series for sure!
Thank you! Good luck. It’s the hardest and also the most rewarding novel you will ever read-I think.
Great review and summary. I love this novel. I read it first in the old Scott-Moncrief translation, then reread Swann’s Way for my blog, The Whole Book Experience, and now am making my way through the new translation. I’m on the last book again. Well worth the effort.
I have the new translation (penguin classics 2003) on my desk, every now and then I open a random page and read it. Thank you for the kind words. I spent a bit of time on it. Of course the depth of this novel is immense.
@@Fiction_Beast Which translation do you prefer more?
Your presentation is excellent. Thank you!
Thank you!
A fascinating summary. Thank you so much.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Very elegant summary 👌🏻🍀.
Great Video. Thanks so much for your smart and impressive work!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Great video! I am reading Swann’s Way, and your video has inspired me to read them all!
I'm so glad! I should do another video on Proust. Perhaps a detailed summary of the plot. Let me know how you get on with it.
Very lucid and concise articulation, thank you !
Glad it was helpful!
This has made me determined to read the book. Starting with the first step..........
David Baddiel's four word 'review' made me laugh. "Too long. Too French."
Pretty accurate!
This was great. Excellent summary.
Subscribed.
Greetings from Germany.
Awesome, thank you!
Exceptionally good overview
It's next on my list, I tried to read Swann's Way once before years ago, but didn't get several pages in before abandoning it ... wish me better luck this time!
Twelve minutes well spent! Thank you very much.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Excellent. Exactly what I was looking for.
Great to hear!
Merci de nous partager ces vidéos très instructives en les traduisant en français vous faites un travail incroyable ça a le mérite de vous remerciez
Je vous remercie! Je suis content que cela ait été utile. Toujours un plaisir d'avoir un public francophone.
I didn’t read it yet, but I’m intending to do so !
Great illustration❤️
Most underrated channel. Another The School Of Life.
Thank you so much for your kind words!
great summary - thank you!
Wonderful! Thanks for watching.
Thank you for this succinct summary! I have been reading a lot about the "Queen of Paris" of the belle époque in Paris: Misia Sert - the muse and patron of the arts. It was through reading about her life that I encountered the name of Proust's most important book. He based 2 characters on her: Princess Yourbeletieff and Madame Verdurin. I was a bit intimidated to dive into the 6 volumes but now I'm inspired by your video. I think I will take my time; even if it takes me a couple of years I would really like to delve deeply into Proust's work. Thanks again! All the best
Great to hear you enjoyed. Appreciate if you subscribed. Have fun with Proust! Let me know you finish.
Great overview. Thank you.
Thanks for watching!
I enjoyed your words, very much, because i have been trying to capture my past life, just to order my experiences almost in the shape of the tree of life, my life. And now i finished reading something similar which helps me to go on in my intentions. Thanks to your words
Thank you for watching. I’m glad you enjoyed the video!
Nicely done, I am now tempted to read.
Go for it!
Brilliantly Done: thank you
Thank you so much!
Awesome review! Liked and subscribed to your channel.
Thank you so much!
Excellent--a superb effort!!
Well thank you!
Thanks for this. I have read the books (arduously 😅) but this was the best summary I have listened to. I just wanted to add, let us not forget that he was ‘Henri Bergson’s best man who married Marcel’s cousin. Henri Bergson and his theory of time surely had some significance also perhaps? ☺️
Sure !
Thanks for the video. I just finished Volume 1
Great, great content!😍😍😍👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻
Thank you!!
Glad you liked it!
Great video sir nd hats off to your dedication for reading... Love all of your work...😘
Thanks a ton
This just pushed me to continue reading it, halfway there
Awesome. Keep up. The end is brilliant.
Thank you for this video Matt. It was helpful. I have read In Search of Lost time in its entirety once, and am Over 5/7ths done on the second re-read. A few bits of feedback: while the phenomenon of involuntary memory is crucial to the story, the more conscious act of recall may be more crucial to the plot. A thinker we know Proust was consciously/studiously influenced by was Henri Bergson who wrote a pretty significant theory of time and consciousness. The Freudian connection is interesting, because there's no known evidence of Proust reading him prior to writing most of this work (if at all), yet the shared insights they have seem abundant. Finally, if you haven't read Roger Shattuck's scholarship on this novel. He expands the visual aspect of Proust's/the narrators thinking, and suggests that the whole plot of the novel could be read as a series of optical illusions.
Thank you for this thoughtful comment. I will check out Roger Shattuck's works on Proust if I can get my hands on. Right now I am thinking of making a detailed plot summary of IN Search of Lost time.
I've read it twice, each time dedicating a summer to it. No regrets. I've also read some secondary literature, like the works of Deleuze and Botton, explicating some aspects. Great video!
Thank you!
Insightful simply explained video. I believe that our fast-speed generation cannot handle thinking that requires this much actual thought. Our brains have been molded into "instant response" in a way this disables the ability to digest long thought processes. That is what these books are about. Years and years of combined sometimes convoluded and at times confusing digested thinking from one man. We all have this ability in us. Thanks for the video.
i agree the attention span has diminished as technology has made life faster and more instantaneous but for a more meaningful life, it is important to take your time.
Thank you for the recommendation.🤝I am hearing about this book for the first time.
This is the greatest novel of 20th century and probably ever. Are you gonna read it? Lol
@@Fiction_Beast yeah...i'm gonna read it...i love these kinda subjects.
It’s hard journey if you read the whole thing but really worth it.
Great .. I want to read it for sure.🙏🙋
That stop motion intro is dope!!!!
Thanks. Took me a few hours on a hot summer day.
You deserve a lot more views
Thank you!
Today is the day i found you and also found a new way of thinking, and a new way of living Iife , so thank you
Thank you so much. Glad it was helpful.
Thank you 🌼
Sometimes reading ,,selected pages,,, is a good way to admire Proust. In Catalonia we have all the volumes of the novel plus ,,a Tria,,( selected pages). . Brilliant traductor is JM Pinto. It does work!!!
Thank you for your insights. I am in the last 100 pages of Sodom and Gommorah. I am loving every word. I am not sure about being the best novel.
Love your channel
Thank you so much!
I like your one-sentence summary. It's much better than the flippant "Marcel becomes a writer," that people too often quote.
Appreciate it.
I have only read a few pages from the first volume and my dream is that someday I have the time to read all of it. He is incredibly passionate, kind, considerate, loving and thoughtful. After reading this book one might become an angel I imagine.
Thank you! I can't wait to begin.....
wonderful. Would love to hear what you think.
I always thought about reading Proust...but I don't know if I could make it through. Great stuff my friend
reading proust is like marriage. if you can do one, you can do the other as well :)
This is a very good interpretation of Proust and his longest work.
Thank you! Appreciate you watching my video.
great explanation of the novel.
Thank you for watching my video. I’m glad you liked it.
Your video really gave the envy to read it and I'll do it soon.
Go for it.
Lots of love from the distant corner of the world! I'm one of the newest subscribers in your channel. Thank you for your excellent and clear explanations for this immense series! Today both Marcel and me experience our birthday, so, I'm so lucky to find him here:). As I said before, I've just subscribed your channel, but is it possible to find a video about another great, great and maybe the greatest literate brain of the last century (Louis Ferdinand Celine) in your channel?.. Thanks!
Appreciate it. I will discuss Celine in a future video.
This concept saved the linguini restaurant in ratatouille. The ratatouille took the harsh critic back to his mom in his memories.
So this is why so many people think they can write a book even if they lack talent? They want to be immortal somehow?
It's also kind of pathetic having so many mediocre celebrities
writing CHILDEREN'S BOOKS. 🙄
I would like to read it. Thank you very much for your video
You're welcome 😊
Well this was great. Thanks for coming to my channel so I could find yours.
Thank you! Glad you liked it.
You are epic man! I haven't read this novel but I wanna read it... I have read Portrait of an artist as a young man , this seems quite like it!
I haven't read "Portrait" but I think Joyce and Proust were writing around the same time.
@@Fiction_Beast yup... Proust came out 3 years earlier if I am not mistaken...
easy Introduction love it
My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.”
― Marcel Proust
Thank you! Glad it helped you.
another great video
Glad you enjoyed it
My literature subject brought me here. Looks like I found a gem. From Philippines
Thank you, Eliza! It’s wonderful to hear that.
I started reading it, years ago but gave up, I am well read but found this book the most challenging; maybe if I read "in search of lost time" again I might appreciate it more.
Go for it. With age wine tastes better and so does Proust.
I had ik had het boek in mijn bezit en heb er fragmenten uit gelezen,maar ik ga het opnieuw lezen ditmaal volledig.Waarvan akte...Met vriendelijke groeten,Daniël
I don't know if thats you recording around @9:30 but i love the lady with the "pearl" earing book mark.
Yes it’s mine. I believe I got it when I bought the set. Also Proust was a huge lover of Vermeers works.
It's very self indulgent and very French and I love it! I read everything and anything and I try to be as open to most people's personal experiences and you get this in full. Life is art, but only if you reflect on it.
Proust is amazing. Yes, everything you said and that;s why I love his work.
@@Fiction_Beast I'm an older reader, but had never read or experienced his work till recently. While I was reading and absorbing his prose, I had an epiphany. In the pop film, Ratatouille, they borrowed a concept from Proust. It's where the food critic, French, of course, tries the food and is immediately flung to that first experience, where his mother cooked that particular meal for the first time. He has that eureka moment and memory floods his concsiouness. Or perhaps it's just me.....
Yes that’s def Proust. I haven’t seen the film but I’ll check it out.
@@athenassigil5820 Hey:) I’ m French and you’re absolutely right about Ratatouille
We even have an expression in France for when you have that « Eureka » moment . We say : It’s my Madeleine de Proust
Sorry for my English :)
I’m 100 pages in Guermantes Way. You’re absolutely correct. Sometimes I want to bash my brains in because of him lamenting on and on, however it’s worth it for those precious AHA moments. I’m also reading Nietzsche, how uncanny.
Proust is one of my favorite novelists and Nietzsche one of my favorite philosophers. Thank you for the comment.
thank you thank you thank you........
The only way I was able to "read" this was by listening to it on Audible. It actually was enjoyable, though I'm not going to say I got everything.
Yes, it's not easy, but I hope this video helped you to understand the novel better.
Brilliant. A true artist. It begs the question though, is this work art for art's sake or for the sake of pride?
I dont know the answer, but i assume for both. The novel allows you to see things far more beautiful than they are. It elevates the experience of memory to something greater and more profound. Again, one person's art is another's show off. For this is as profound as the best art can offer. incidentally i am working on a more detailed summary of the novel right now :)
Thankyou
what a great video damn
Thank you for being so kind.
@@Fiction_Beast hope to see more quality from you mate, cheers
I’m working on another video on Proust. I’m so excited. Hopefully upload it next week.
Couldn’t have said it better. What a video! Thank you
It's a truly beautiful and strangely universal novel. But it seems we have gotten two substantially different readings from it.
Proust's main philosophical inspiration is surely Bergson.
Thanks for this summary. I want to read it but the page count is daunting. Some good suggestions from this video and in the comments on how to approach it. I appreciate it.
Awesome. Good luck!
Dear Sir, I want to thank you for the splendid review, summary and explanation of this arduous and difficult literary work. Mow, after seeing and hearing your review, I definitely want to read this novel!
Most welcome!
I just finished it with a twenty break between volumes. Oddly enough I’ve begun to reread it.
reading Proust is not like reading a typical novel. It's more like home-schooling, camping, skin-diving, day-dreaming, eating a delicious food and many more. It's an experience. Let me know how you get on with it.
I'm 83, in good health, and decided to read the rest of "Remembrances" beginning at "Cities of the Plain" Humor has been my Swiss Army Knife thru now. Watching your 12 minute video a quick photo of a puzzled looking man appeared. If that really was George W. Bush your sense of whimsy and Irony match mine. If it wasn't it won't be my last or greatest mistake LOL Thanks in any case.
I dont recall Bush. I am currently making a detailed summary of this novel. I hope you finish it.
@@Fiction_Beast If you meant finish "Remembrances," so do I. I've be plagued by being interested in too many things most of my life. It's left me wondering about what I've no doubt missed by not being more systematic and patient. No question Proust far exceeds all my previous estimates so I'm hoping I've matured into both patience and appreciation. Thanks again :)
Superb precis
Thank you!