Proust’s Genius Artistic Philosophy 

Other videos on Proust: **Full Summary of In Search of Lost Time: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-IfCpAiHvxCM.html **Short Summary of In Search of Lost Time**: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-47zd7JIdVcE.html **Proust and 6 French Stereotypes** ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-cv-xoaBE2os.html

"You find what you want after you stop wanting it." I had never heard that, I'd never really heard much of Prust to be honest until this video. Thanks again for making such great literature accessible.

It is hard to express to you how satisfying your videos have become for me. Long past my academic years and facing the reality of senior-hood, your presentations raise my spirit by reawakening my affinity for philosophical contemplation and being present. Thank you so much for all that you are doing for your followers.

It took me hours to finish, going back and forth and taking notes. It has been one of the most inspiring video that I found. It reason with me and I got really interested in reading more about Proust. But it's not only Proust himself. This is the video that each artist should look at. And other that artists, this video is probably for everyone, in particular people that mirror themself with Marcel and all the doubts and question that you answered with the words of Proust. A great job

I just love your analysis. They are sharp, encouraging and right on the spot. Things I didnt think of before becomes so clear and obvious.

This really is particularly good. Content like this is a rare light in the deep black pit that is RU-vid.

I wanted to pursue philosophy but have started law school... your videos are the best. I love your analysis and it gives me an escape from my reality to what I wanted to pursue. Maybe one day I will pursue philosophy but for now your videos help me in keeping me afloat.

Thank You for your wise analysis. The 10 lessons are thoughtful & meaningful, as I start reading Proust for the 1st time. The "Quotes" are a lovely selection, allowing the man himself to speak directly to us the viewers & more so, the readers. Grateful!

Proust was optimistic because he knew maternal love and with it he learned to love his contemporaries

you are passing forward so important aspect of the essence of humanity through this channel. thank you for doing this amazing work ❤️

Good work dude....maybe making videos to let others know about this is art on itself

Very interesting video indeed! You have mined Proust's books to find the gold he stored away in their many pages... So this means that Proust lived for your (and our) benefit. That was very good of him, and this video of yours is very good of you! (The task remains now for each of us, your audience, to do something, somehow, that will enrich the world, too, and leave it a better place than the one we came into.)

For a summary of Marcel Proust's novel, In Search of Lost Time, watch my other video here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-47zd7JIdVcE.html

4:40 Suffering and the other end is necessary to make us feel better the loss and learn about them. And to fly up to feel the greatness of life. Like when we are close to death 11:10 When we read books we read ourselves

You said everything comes and goes but art remains. I like that, you sound like an ancient Greek philosopher.

Thankyou so much for this beautiful video. You really have great insights. Thankyou. Live long. You will one day be recognized for all the hard work you are placing in your videos. ♥️

Matt! So well done. Through your love of Proust you have inspired me to start the journey through his art. Thank you for your courage in showing your art.

It's ironic that it was Virginia Woolf who said what is there to be written after Proust, when is one of the very few whose greatness I could compare to his. I've first read In Search of Lost Time when I was bery young and though I lacked the wisdom and maturity I posses now, it still moved me very much and it's a book that I will (re)read for the remaining of my life. Each time it feels like a slighlty different experience.

That was a great video, nice work! Thank you!

10:24 "I felt myself still reliving a past which was no longer anything more than the history of another person."---Marcel Proust

This is the best RU-vid video ever! Thanks a ton.

It's a good thing you made this video because I'll never subject myself to the torture of actually reading In Search of Lost Time

Really enjoying these thoughtful explorations of great literature. Thank you for your work.

Recently I was reading some of the Steven Pinker’s books and I think it was in “Rationality” where I stumbled on a quote by Homer Simpson. By paraphrasing it went something like this: “It will be a problem of future Homer and I don’t envy that guy”. Now I know where Marcel Proust got his ideas. Thank you for creating these videos! It is great pleasure to listen to them and I learn a lot.

Thank you man. I loved it. So much.

That was a crazy lesson, awakening for the little us inside of us :)

Amazing summary!!!! ❤️

Excellent analysis. Thank you!

Reading La Recherche for the first time. Love these videos.

First, Matt I love your love for literature and philosophy and how they blend together into an amazing human legacy. Second, I want to run to McLeod's Second Hand Books here in Vancouver and find In Search of Lost Time. It had them in my possession at some point and carted them to the various apartments then I went to Spain to dance flamenco and knew Marcel would understand the need to travel light, but now with the last taste of cafe au lait and toast on my tongue, I'm running to recapture the memories of the selves now long gone, to move slowly to places where my father and I skimmed waters, now gone dry, in his boat. I want to refeel what has been for me as I read the voice of an invisible friend casting a net of his selves towards me to pull me back into time, into vitalité. Third -- a recommendation - "A Tale for the Time Being" by Ruth Ozeki ... here, it is as if zen master Dogen and Proust meet in a Japanese teenager who wants to end her time on the planet. Finally, please keep doing your wonderful work of inspiring us to dive into the world's within another and within ourselves ... and merge. Merci Beaucoup mon ami et Mon Prof

Thank you for these videos.

Thank You for Your great videos.

Interesting analysis of Proust. Thank you.

This is a great video thanks 🙏

Brilliant video. I've saved it to listen to again

One of the best videos I've seen.

Wanting isn't having.

Finishing my second reading of Proust in this lifetime I am constantly looking back on my own.

Outstanding, insightful, useful for both art and life. Surprisingly in harmony with eastern philosophical traditions. I will be re-watching this video many times.

Wow this is an amazing video you have created. So much to learn from. Wonderful work!

Excellent video

Thank you. Very educational.

Wow, wow, wow and more wow. I love you now. Yes, I had some complaints, but I love you now. This video. Oh. What can I say. Words cannot describe how good it is. Thank you.🙏🏼 More power to you.

I don't know if I agree "That Suffering Makes Us Think" as much as I would say that thinking makes us suffer. When one has a brief relief from thinking they are at peace, once thinking seeps back in all the troubles of the world seep in with it. One never has as many problems as when one is thinking.

as always, great vid

excellent work

Suffering can also distort you into something too intellectually disturbed to express oneself non-destructively.

Thank you for sharing this video with me. I enjoyed watching it very much!

Thoroughly enjoyed this :) best video I have watched in a long time. I take my hat of to your Sir!

I respect darkness always as the dark phase in my life helps me to understand others and more than that myself and the eternal power inside me.

great job on these proust vids, man. you should do a similar treatment of the key works of david foster wallace.

Gr8 work thank you

Excellent

Can you make detailed summary of each book. I love this channel.

This was wonderful, thank you.

Excellent stuff, inspires me to push through swann’s way

Well done. Approved.

Great content. Recommend a pop filter on your mic, and/or roll off some low end on your voice channel.

anyone have page numbers for the quotes he mentions in each lesson? Great explanations as always!

Thinking makes us suffer.

Suffering makes us think...if we think first,we may not have to suffer.

" Intermittences du cœur " is a wonderfull ballet and music about the different lifes of Marcel Proust with his " Recherche du temps perdu " must see absolutely this ballet coreographer Roland Petit on RU-vid !

Madeleine de Proust ! AWESOME 💕💕💕🙏

the beauty of nature, society and the inside out of human it captured are to me, "like a polychrome cathedral of the deep"

The highest hope should be to have the greatest possible now.

Damn dude!!!! You got a gift

Amazing video, and amazing explanation Thank you

The scientist Stephen Hawking believed that in one form or another, the universe always existed. If his system of belief just happened to be correct, then consciousness and suffering of all forms of life is natural, and there never was any judge-mental creator in existence, or any afterlife where souls of only humans go to be punished or rewarded.

Inspiration makes me think.

So well explained, thank you so much. Proust is the true God.

This is the best video analysis on Proust.

Great!!..my cousin

Very intelligent and and illuminating. Excellent!

Thank you. I'm going to have to sleep on it....

Outstanding video! I’m watching it now-on point 3-but has to stop and post this comment. Really well done work. OK, back to it...

If suffering makes us think, does thinking make us suffer?

Great video! Maybe you'd tackle Nabokov? 😁

Marcel Proust ❤

Prosperity makes one think! Hire above yourself- get it.

Yes

Great video thank you

Would be nice to include citations.

Hello thanks for the video. Did you read Proust in English? If so, can you recommend a translation?

you have an artistic way of describing yourself

This channel is crazily good. Are you crazy or good?

are all these quotes in the stories?

In what way was Proust different from America’s Thomas Wolfe.. Both sought to solve the enigma of time.. Thomas Wolfe might be said to have lived his life twice..through his writing of lost time. ..”.. of a leaf..a stone..an unfound door..o lost and by the wind grieved ghost come back again”

Marcel Proust's masterpiece is "Remembrance of things past" not "In search of lost time" which is a word by word translation

Artists before: To produce art is to suffer. Artists today: To produce art is to be a victim. /s

What does patiche mean?

Want to know more!!!

When you are quoting, you have to give full citation. Thanks.

It's a funny title as thinking actually makes us suffer.

You probably didn't suffer a lot.... What one should see in La recherche, is that despite supposed nostalgia, all it ends by a chapter named The recovered time, and that leads to a a conclusion that the Recherche was useless, and that the goal is to continue a creative work. So he continues writing, that's the sens of his life. But that's not the sens i give to the book. In fact, one is conveyed, everyone is conveyed in his life, to make this "Recherche ... " at moment in life when times begins to run short, or parents are dying, etc. At a difficult period of life, everyone is searching for an understanding, and begins to recap what he knows, and also on the biographic level what he has experienced, so it's this huge impulsion to think, when we have difficulties, that launches this maniac recovering of souvenirs, in the hope there will be an answer, or a solution, for our problems. That's what everybody should be mind of... we all make this "Recherche... " when we are in a dire situation, with the hope to understand what went wrong. This is our brain walking around everything it knows. This "Recherche..." is the product of a helpless mind searching a way out, of it's misery. While he doesn't know, he starts from the beginning, like at the last judgement telling who he is. Same for Rousseau's Confessions... or everyone's confession, as believer. Or in therapy. You should definitively give up the idea all your philosophers gives solutions ! they don't ! Because there isn't.

Thank you.

Wish you to talk about Arab-african novel (season of migration to the north) by Altayeb Salih

IMO it’s thinking that makes us suffer.

Please make an documentary on Robindro Nath Tagore and Kazi Nazrul Islam.

Ulysses?

Does every unattributed quote belong to Proust?