LITERATURE - Marcel Proust

No one ever knows anyone

7:53am very Zen take notice before it’s gone!

Thank you so much.

Very interesting

What a wonderful summary of the virtues of Proust.

Herbal tea and madeleine reminded me of the ''Taste of Cherry, 1997'' by Kiaroastami. It's about a man who wants to commit suicide and looks for someone who would burry him in his favourite spot. On his way he finds an old man after some other people refuse his offer, who reminds him of the taste of cherry.

''The Wanderer Above The Sea of Fog'' is a masterpiece.

Memory and Time: . I still recall just the one line from John Galsworthy's "Forsyte Saga" from forty years ago where he described bluebells...."like little pieces of sky fallen between the trees".

Would love to see one on Pynchon!

So I have a thought. Could life be about more than the subjective judgments we have about it? Perhaps pleasure and sensation aren't as Important as the things we actually do with our lives, our relationships, accomplishments, and contributions, all of these give life that sense of satisfaction and meaning that sustain when life inevitably becomes dark.

Why do you spoil novels

Stop wasting time, read the longest book in the world.

Brilliant. I feel no need to read the novel, but just look around me. This is heaven , hiding in plain sight,everywhere. Wonderful. Many thanks

I'm holding a presentation about this guy in 4 hours and watching this video is as much effort I'll put into studying... Oh yeah, maybe it's worth noting it's 4:13 am rn

Çok teşekkurler 🙏

Perception is reality. I've been coming back to this concept repeatedly for the past few years.

You sound like Hochelaga - or he sounds like you 😄 he he.

What’s it all about Alfie? Christ crucified: John 3:16

I pulled a long sniff at 8.26.

I could smell the tea from my device.

As Tony soprano would say about Proust Madeleines, sounds gay.

I didn't know there was a name for that!

Can I get this novel in English somewhere?

Proust- In Search of Time
Tolstoy- The Death of Ivan Ilyich
Dickens- A Christmas Carol

Ironically, by the time you've finished reading 'In Search of Lost Time' it will be too late.

Très profound! Merci beaucoup!

Unless someone put a gun to my head and kept on threatening me with it until I finished it I could never read a 1.2 million word novel, even if it contained the ultimate meaning of life. Instead I watch videos like this and read sweet little excerpts from it on GoodReads.

I have written a 52K word novel and I had to read it three - four times to edit it. Even those were a lot, and the words were my own. Could I ever write a 500K word novel? Only if it was a 8 to 10 part series that I wrote over 5 or so years.

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I just realized those were googly eyes used in the video.. I wonder if Everything Everywhere All At Once took some inspiration from this at one point.

I dig these videos. Just thinking about the proustian moment, like what about people who are trying to open themselves to entirely new worlds? like I'm an American in Russia and this is the most important thing thats ever happened to me hands down, but I will never experience a proustian moment here, never. What is that supposed to mean? is the proustian moment really important? I'm just spit balling by the way, I get the point is that we should experience life in an indepth and sincere way roughly speaking

Great.

I have wondered why Proust discards his second option of Love being the purpose of existence -- not all relationships are plagued with the type of folly and jealousy (and loneliness, essentially) that he experienced with Albertine. does Proust not believe in the possibility of a good marriage? of a fulfilling family? what about his love for his grandmother, or arguably his mother in Combray? what about friendship? those are good candidates for a/the purpose of life

this is such a penetrating summary of the work -- absolute kudos

beautiful!

He had a VERY ambitious aim in view: to write the biography of E.V.E.R.Y. moment. The result could only be a book with no end.

gosh dang this is heavy stuff

Currently about to start the fourth part. I love this video.

MY AUNT CHATO MARQUEZ GONZALES DOESN'T LIKE MY FIRST COUSIN KARINA LEDESMA DEL ROSARIO. SHE SEES US BOTH HAPPY. MY AUNT OLGA LEDESMA WAS EXCITED TO SEE ME IN MANILA. MY LIFE COUSIN JOVY LEDESMA IS NICE. IT'S MY AUNT JOIE AZURIN WHO INFLUENCE ME TO BE A NICE PERSON ❤️

I hope every single person on the planet could see this video.

Absolutely amazing

Thats so good thx

This was a beautiful summary

Great job you are amazingly cool

So taboo ... yet so incredibly predictable and boring.

Thank you guys for this amazing video!

Is Proust's work longer than the Rigveda?

One should be able to survive on purely creativity basis, similar to an Opera singer and a painter. Housewife can become an opera singer or is encouraged by a comoser. Why they never chose their wives to sing opera, don't let me go there andur. Too much!

Am I wrong, or did this video say Marcel complained to his housekeeper?