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.
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.
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...
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?
@@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.
'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.
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.
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?
