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  • Опубліковано 4 жов 2024
  • A documentary on his life and works

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  • @fabricio_santana
    @fabricio_santana 5 років тому +18

    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.

  • @neroresurrected
    @neroresurrected 6 років тому +26

    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.

    • @matthewgordonpettipas6773
      @matthewgordonpettipas6773 3 роки тому +1

      I agree Proust is one of the greatest authors of the 20th century, but greatest? I think that's an entirely subjective concept.

  • @foodforthesoul4011
    @foodforthesoul4011 3 роки тому +5

    Thank you for sharing this the wonderful documentary with us all. A 58 minutes and 29 seconds well spent.

  • @richardwestwood8212
    @richardwestwood8212 3 роки тому +4

    This is how a grand literary documentary should be made, bravo.

  • @jeffdawson2786
    @jeffdawson2786 3 роки тому +2

    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...

  • @daigreatcoat44
    @daigreatcoat44 5 років тому +10

    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?

  • @JeremyLasley
    @JeremyLasley 6 років тому +8

    Thank you so much for making this rare documentary available! I've been waiting a long time to see this appear on UA-cam.

  • @mariegiral-cordrey3358
    @mariegiral-cordrey3358 4 роки тому +1

    wonderful documentary, thank you for uploading it and also thank them to the two academics (?) who talk so beautifully about Proust.

  • @HZACHARY2004
    @HZACHARY2004 6 років тому +7

    Yes. This is great for Proust lovers.

  • @benburndred2226
    @benburndred2226 2 місяці тому +2

    I would love to have enough money to casually stay in a hotel for five months

  • @raymondravinsky6478
    @raymondravinsky6478 6 років тому +2

    Great. Thank you!

  • @salemfathi2035
    @salemfathi2035 5 років тому +10

    My doctoral thesis is on Proust and Flaubert

  • @koosy2987
    @koosy2987 6 років тому +5

    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?

  • @adelaidedupont9017
    @adelaidedupont9017 5 років тому +1

    That extract about #suffering and #death was great. 29:30 - 29:40 as far as I can quote it.

  • @gregoryberrycone
    @gregoryberrycone 6 років тому +2

    so good

  • @yousukeangel
    @yousukeangel 6 років тому +5

    Madeleine scene !! Wonderful!

  • @benulrand9137
    @benulrand9137 4 роки тому

    Does anyone know what translation was used for the excerpts?

  • @권순정-d6x
    @권순정-d6x 6 років тому +2

    Compare with James Joyce, who is greater ?

    • @권순정-d6x
      @권순정-d6x 6 років тому +8

      I admire Proust more than Joyce.

    • @senseis1
      @senseis1 6 років тому +5

      Proust is greater, of course :-)

    • @ehyjjy
      @ehyjjy 5 років тому +3

      @@권순정-d6x 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.

    • @dkb219
      @dkb219 4 роки тому +3

      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.

    • @normadesmond6017
      @normadesmond6017 4 роки тому +2

      compare the Mona Lisa to the Girl with the pearl earring. There is no comparison.

  • @vaspers
    @vaspers 6 років тому +5

    "Yet he was homosexual." Yet Proust denied this and made fun of homosexuality in his In Search of Lost Time novel.

    • @hansmahr8627
      @hansmahr8627 5 років тому +4

      '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.

    • @vaclavmiller8032
      @vaclavmiller8032 3 роки тому +4

      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.