In the second episode of Proust Curious, hosts Emma Claussen and Hannah Weaver slog through the narrator's first love on the Champs-Élysées and emerge onto the dazzling shore of Normandy, where he travels with his grandmother. We notice that Proust begins to introduce concepts critical to the project: the ongoing tussle between habit and novelty, the social kaleidoscope, the subject matter of art, and the essential perspectivalism of all human relations. We dissect a passage about toenails, classical statuary, and living nymphs. Plus, we'll answer the question: "What is your favorite virtue?" Join us as we search for lost time and remember things Proust. Produced by Michael Goldsmith in partnership with Public Books; visit publicbooks.org [https://www.publicbooks.org/category/podcast/proust-curious/] for transcripts and more information. Resources: * Proust Questionnaire [https://www.library.illinois.edu/rbx/kolbproust/proust/qst/] * In Search of Lost Time [https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/226026/the-modern-library-in-search-of-lost-time-complete-and-unabridged-6-book-bundle-by-marcel-proust-translated-by-c-k-scott-moncrieff-terence-kilmartin-and-andreas-mayor-revised-by-d-j-enright/](trans. Moncrieff, Kilmartin, and Mayor; rev. Enright) * Emma and Hannah discuss this volume further [https://youtu.be/GQd-4i7DJUw?si=HBLhJn6tmL3uygUg] * Logo image [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Autographe_Proust_Intermittences.JPG] * Madame de Sévigné (seventeenth-century French author) [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_de_Rabutin-Chantal,_marquise_de_S%C3%A9vign%C3%A9] * Céline Sciamma (dir.) Bande de filles ('Girlhood') [https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bande_de_filles] * Rubens, Marie de' Medici Cycle [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_de%27_Medici_cycle]

In their inaugural episode of Proust Curious, hosts Emma Claussen and Hannah Weaver begin their plunge into Proust with the first volume of the Recherche, Swann's Way. Proust's humor can often be lost in the haze of canonization, but that's where our curiosity turns today. We talk about psychedelic lime blossoms, seeing people through paintings, and the original deeply feeling kid. We consider the unity of this frequently-excerpted volume. Finally, we engage with Proust's careful misdirection about the nature of time at the end of the volume, which he wrote in a letter was "the opposite of [his] conclusion." Plus, we'll answer the question, If not yourself, who would you be? Join us as we search for lost time and remember things Proust. Resources: Proust Questionnaire [https://www.library.illinois.edu/rbx/kolbproust/proust/qst/] In Search of Lost Time [https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/226026/the-modern-library-in-search-of-lost-time-complete-and-unabridged-6-book-bundle-by-marcel-proust-translated-by-c-k-scott-moncrieff-terence-kilmartin-and-andreas-mayor-revised-by-d-j-enright/](trans. Moncrieff, Kilmartin, and Mayor; rev. Enright) Emma and Hannah discuss this volume further [https://youtu.be/GQd-4i7DJUw?si=HBLhJn6tmL3uygUg] Logo image [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Autographe_Proust_Intermittences.JPG]

Welcome to Proust Curious, a podcast about the experience of reading Proust's "A la Recherche du temps perdu" in its entirety. Hosts Emma Claussen and Hannah Weaver hold PhDs in French Literature, but neither of us works on Proust or his period. By getting out of our lanes, we aim to dramatize the experience of reading critically for discovery and even, dare we say, pleasure.  Proudly in partnership with Public Books; visit publicbooks.org.  Write us at [email protected].