How to Read Proust's In Search of Lost Time- 10 Tips (+10 Signs after you read)

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[@karrinwilley8079]

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[@burke9497]

Great video as usual. I would definitely participate if you started a Proust reading club. I think Proust is more amenable to a reading club than most authors, because of all the art, music, literature, etc that there is to discuss in his work.

[@Fiction_Beast]

I have to think of a way to find the time to do it. Any suggestions?

[@burke9497]

@@Fiction_Beast Finding time is ironically one of the major issues with reading In Search of Lost Time.

[@markspano3468]

I especially liked your discussion of the olfactory in Proust. It’s our most primordial sense and often unexplored as a means of experiencing the world. I might even say that our nose provides the most direct path into the unconscious.

[@Fiction_Beast]

Now that you mention, yes smell is big in my life too, like a piece of string that pushes and pulls me away from things.

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Your last sentence may very well be certainly true. It is well documented in psychology and psychiatry that one of the quickest and most effective ways to halt one’s panic attack is by using the smell of lavender. Lavender immediately creates a state of calm for most people, certainly for me and my family.

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[@bradlybancroft8605]

Great video. Its definitely the kind of book you have to prepare for. I'm almost finished with my third reading. Buddhist themes are present if you have an understanding of that perspective.

[@gracefitzgerald2227]

I watched this one! It was gorgeously done. I want a Proust book club! This video was crazy! It was like you’re in my head and the book IS alive. I’m finishing up the Captive tonight and my husband didn’t like seeing reading such big books. He bought Me a Kindle and put the Fugitive on there for me. I have bad carpal tunnel. Thank you as always. This was a work of art in itself.

[@Fiction_Beast]

I will have to find the time to organise one.

[@okabeokuyasu2505]

Wow it was genuinely interesting, above all the 10 signs after reading proust part. It's very profound that intake about Time permanently fleeing while we get absorbed into suffering and how finally everything is petty. Time is consuming us and paradoxically you still have to learn to slow down until almost freezing time to feel, to think about what you really have to do with your limited amount of time, then having slowed down to digest a bigger than yourself purpose you can live at a faster pace, cutting down many things, sacrificing mundane for deeper. Back and forth into different paces, understanding time and it's effect since you cannot control it.

[@Fiction_Beast]

Glad you enjoyed it.

[@codingcocoon]

I've watched a lot of videos about Proust, this is by far the best one. Thank you.

[@Fiction_Beast]

Wow, thank you!

[@reshaw9182]

I love your sense of humor. Thus was great 😂

[@TheDanallen]

I think this gentlemanh as much of the same articulation and insight he so admires in Proust. Well done, thank you.

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Another great video. Thank you so much for your work.

[@liltick102]

Picked up the same box set - so in love with this translation.

[@chuntoon1]

10:26 - Said like a little poem, great line

[@donaldkelly3983]

This was very helpful, especially since I only read Swan's Way before giving up. The mistake I made was reading for plot instead of "process." Clarissa by Richardson is supposed to work the same way. Dr. Johnson said to read Clarissa for sentiment, not plot. The same rule applies to Proust. The movement of time did become acute to me even after first volume. I wanted to make some mark in the world, since the novel says, to me anyway, that we all have the same experiences and our existence ends in death.

[@Fiction_Beast]

Thanks for sharing. I hope my videos can help you understand Proust without reading him. But nothing can substitue your own reading of the novel.

[@whspore9534]

@@Fiction_Beast - True. No harm knowing the plot before you read. But the former cannot substitute the latter. And certainly, you'll like to share your findings about Proust when you start reading it.

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[@bdinh14]

beautiful stunning analysis.

[@sharminvlog8]

The music in the last give a good finishing touch when the discussion about proust is done.

[@Fiction_Beast]

You mean at the end?

[@sharminvlog8]

@@Fiction_Beast yes

[@mojahangard]

Can you please expand on what your understanding of Nietzsche is? Because I am confident what I understand Nietzsche to mean will differ to yours.

[@atefless]

This was much needed. Thank you!

[@mgmartin51]

A very enjoyable introduction to Proust!

[@ianwild66]

Very interesting theories thanks for posting.

[@olgat.155]

Thoroughly enjoyed this analyses. I have been thinking of reading this work for some time now. You inspired me to start asap. I was wondering if you could recommend a publication in English?

[@Fiction_Beast]

I read the penguin classics version. There's also an online free version on gutenberg website but it is an older trans

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Another great way to approach Proust is via an audiobook, paid for or for free on KZbin. The words can flow over you

[@chuntoon1]

Agreed .. I've found audiobooks are a great way to approach a lot of heavy novels. If I really like them, I double back and really read it.

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:-D very relatable! Thank you for making this video.

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Great!

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Which of the six books would you recommend? Your knowledge of literature, art, philosophy, religion, history, etc. is just so incredible. God bless you.

[@Fiction_Beast]

I say the first and last volumes are the best for me. Again, it might be different for different people.

[@HortensyaM]

Why do you have 6 books when the story was divided in 7 ?

[@Fiction_Beast]

English translation put 5,6 together

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[@Prof_JC]

I came to the comments section to post exactly the same question.

[@Fiction_Beast]

i came across a collection of 25 volumes a few years ago. they were published in Japan in 1971.

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Can you tell us the publisher. I’d like to go in search of them. Maybe through used books depositories

[@katherinevdkirk]

Really enjoyed this. Thanks.

[@Fiction_Beast]

Awesome.

[@henriquepena92]

Has the idea for starting a Proust book club progressed?

[@simonclay6821]

Thanks for the tips mate. If I get a video on how to read classics in general, I will be more happy. Like level of vocabulary needed, things to know etc.

[@Fiction_Beast]

I will keep that in mind.

[@ladycactus110]

That’s an interesting perspective. Having read many classics, I would say, follow the “Nike advice”: just do it. You don’t learn vocabulary before reading the classics; you learn vocabulary by reading the classics.

[@QED_]

1:53 Bergson's philosophy of time can be experienced as either Masculine or Feminine. It appears as Feminine experience in Proust . . . but as Masculine experience in Faulkner's "Absalom, Absalom".

[@Fiction_Beast]

Great tip on Faulkner

[@radiantchristina]

I was waiting until I found myself in prison to read Proust, but the bathroom seems like a better idea lol. Great video. You've convinced me to finally start the first volume.

[@vidaemmanuel6620]

Would love a Proust book club

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[@bretonmoraduartejasser840]

I watch you last video of proust i and became complete fell in love of the novel but in my country the volumes are expensive, so i'm still saving money for the books

[@Fiction_Beast]

if you read in English, you can download free e-book version on gutenberg.org

[@PEGGLORE]

I managed to get the 1st book 'Swann's way' for 15 pence for kindle on Amazon recently, which seemed the greatest bargain of all time. I keep having to tell Alexa to stop reading it every few minutes, as it's too annoying to listen to. There's still around 16 hours left of the book.

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Please start the Proust Book club

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I have to think of time and logistics.

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You're welcome 😊

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Did you make the Proust book club?

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[@Fiction_Beast]

Thank you. I actually one of your videos. It was so interesting to hear the man being genuine and insightful.

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[@Fiction_Beast]

Thank you!

[@ie2adm212]

It's easy: popular edition has seven volumes, you read the first three and the last half of the seventh volume. I read it all, and at book #4 I wondered why he had suddenly lost all his talent, until I finally reached second half of last book and the talent was back.

[@Fiction_Beast]

I read all six

[@Ekergaard]

I have read Proust, every book In search of lost time ,only I didn't read it right. I didn't understand the novel. And now I'm reading the Expanse, I don't have time to reread Proust. Can I use the this tips while reading the Expanse? It's up to you to decide how much I'm joking when asking that.

[@Fiction_Beast]

I dont know the Expanse. Tell me more.

[@AxViki]

Nice

[@davidrichard1602]

Proust is great but don t forget robert musil and joyce... The man without quality is unforgettable...

[@abhradas6433]

I see that your edition of Proust is from penguin classics....do you recommend penguin or kilmartin?

[@Fiction_Beast]

I have not seen the Kilmartin edition, but I assume it's fine. If it's significantly cheaper, go for it. Penguin version is more recent.

[@shogokawada2333]

Hello ! Any others japanese recommandation please ?

[@Fiction_Beast]

I made a top 10 Japanese novels video. search for it on my channel

[@karenerickson4019]

I love your channel and would definitely participate if you started a Proust reading club.

[@Fiction_Beast]

Appreciate it. If I get the time, for sure.

[@2msvalkyrie529]

I wouldn't put great faith in Bertrand Russell as literary critic but his critique of Bergson and Nietzsche as philosophers was fairly accurate. Also your description of Japanese Culture didn't include any mention of their notion of racial superiority and the appalling atrocities committed during W W 2. Presumably the Tea Ceremony and Flower arranging fit more comfortably into your conception of " authentic " Japanese culture ?

[@durandaldevil]

Maybe it’s my bad vision, but there is no way I can read one page per minute. 😁🤷🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️

[@pemiller2762]

I have read this is a fine presentation, but as a severely hearing impaired person, I do wish there were captioning.

[@Fiction_Beast]

It has subtitles. Just turn it on by clicking on “cc” button

[@pemiller2762]

I know to look for it. I do not see one on my scfeen. What should I be looking for. Thank you for getting back to me

[@chuntoon1]

☠ - Sexist and Racist, you've been reported to the woke headquarters. The Ministry of Love will be in touch shortly. I'm going to try and tackle Proust soon. Found you because of your love of Dostoevsky, your videos area always amazing, thanks for all the time you put into them.

[@webmasterultra3487]

You would like Orthodox Christianity, it’s very much this way once you get into it.

[@chalkisplacebo.6697]

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[@JustinFisher777]

I guess you would recommend simply skipping the hundreds of pages of party gossip that I find so pointless.

[@gracefitzgerald2227]

BTW I dunno what your talking about. Bergson is a hottie and I’d totally be a fan girl!

[@Fiction_Beast]

Oops! lol

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[@chuntoon1]

Don't bother reading the novels either, just skim the back cover and make a judgment of it

[@ryanmacfarlane1831]

Prison? Who's waiting for prison to read something hahaha

[@Fiction_Beast]

Lol! I sometimes throw sarcastic comments.

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[@Fiction_Beast]

Thanks!

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[@xyzllii]

As a sincere Proust fan..I've visited his village twice...walked his walks...sat in the church...visited the house..and so on. I recognise nothing of what you say as important in Proust. His investigation was into Society...what goes on behind the closed doors. His jealousy in love....and so on. Aunt Leonie and the Madeleine dipped in lime blossom tea.The claustrophobic atmosphere in the Salons...the characters...etc etc. And BTW ...it was van Gogh who was influenced by Japanese art...not Monet.

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[@JustinFisher777]

Lol. This a great comment. The fan of Proust as psychologist and the fan of Proust as sociologist. I prefer the psychology. The hundreds of pages about the gossip of the upper class at parties is torture for me. It's hard to reconcile these two aspects of Proust. Your comment indicates that you were unmoved by the physical details of Proust, which is very interesting.