Marcel Proust - In Search of Lost Time Audiobook

[@haruka1378]

Alain’s voice was already so soothing in the regular videos, this is like heaven!

[@krutibhavsar9534]

Couldn't agree more...

[@FurEliseFanboy]

It's strikingly beautiful how Proust so lucidly and accurately describes the most subtle and overlooked thoughts and emotions.

[@BarbaraT.]

Can we all just agree on the fact that Proust understood everything, wrote of it beautifully and nothing else makes sense? ☺

[@jbri1]

@@BarbaraT. of course we can't. We can't all agree on anything.

[@Pixel1962]

It’s a revelation to me; I have never read/heard Proust before, and this sounds like a fantastic translation.

[@secretjosh5619]

Whoah whoah whoah. When did my favourite practical philosophy channel turn into an ASMR channel?? Well, I'm not complaining. I need to sleep soon anyway.

[@theschooloflifetv]

We're always looking to try new things! And a film that can finally send us to sleep is a useful one indeed.

[@ryanjeanes5253]

@@theschooloflifetv Thank you, Alain.

[@Ryuzaki_kun]

@@theschooloflifetv sir you are love

[@pinabaker8339]

Love love love this! Am reading ISOLT at the moment. Any chance you can eat the whole the lot?

[@zeev]

when it needs more hits. this is the problem with the internet. and social media. success and winner is incentivized to be greedy. not saying SoL is greedy, but this is the incentive framework.

[@realbobbyaxel]

Alain de Botton and his voice are the cornerstone of the school of life

[@kriola84]

Thank you thank you thank you. Such a good idea to have Alain De Botton and his soothing voice on a proust story!

[@Carmen-mp3je]

He has a beautiful voice ❤ is one of the things I love the most of his channel, his calmed voice to explain complex emotions and make me feel it’s ok to feel and be unwell

[@charlespaxson2679]

Two weeks ago I finished Swann’s Way. Months of reading in the morning as I adopted it as my morning spiritual book. When good things happen to me these days, they are accepted poignantly like the anticipation of the mother’s kiss, he knows she’ll be returning downstairs soon. Thank you Alain. Beautiful. Wonderful to be in this company.

[@JanGotner]

How DARE you call Proust boring. When reading In Search of Lost Time I literally can't get my eyes off the text. His descriptions of social interactions, of dinners, balls, parties are intoxicatingly exciting. Reading Proust is a raging ride! :D

[@BarbaraT.]

My favourite book. Ever. It's not going to send me to sleep but THANK YOU anyway. Nothing could make me happier than listening to Alain reading Proust.

[@tonatiuhnino3711]

Alain has the best ASMR voice ever.

[@jeselsanches4444]

I wish Alain would narrate all of Proust.

[@theschooloflifetv]

Let's see how this one goes down - then we'll see!

[@kevinwoodfield240]

I’d pay for this in a heartbeat

[@bajolunapod]

​@@theschooloflifetv yes please. Audiobook by you is the only possible shot I'm ever 'reading' this masterful but looooooong book. :)

[@moe42o]

This is awesome. Reminds me of the best times of my life. Fishing early morning, from my little rowboat. Whilst everything is still and quiet, everyone in the cabin is sleeping deep in dreams. Something so cathartic about watching and listening to the world slowly wake in the morn.

[@Sussyphis]

Iv had insomnia for a week, your videos are timed perfectly for me

[@tinkageorgewilliam871]

In the stillness of the night When the world is fast asleep I lie awake, my mind aflight With thoughts that dance and leap Insomnia, my old friend You plague me once again And yet, in your embrace I find a certain grace For in the silence of the night I am free to roam and roam To explore the depths of my mind And find a world all my own So while others dream and rest I wander in this waking dream And though it may be a curse It is also a blessing, it seems For in the hours of the night I find a kind of clarity A space to think and write And create, so willingly So thank you, insomnia For giving me this gift Of time to be alone And to explore, to sift Through all the thoughts and feelings That linger in my soul And to weave them into words That make me whole.

[@deborahhercodbooth8011]

Is this poem your own? It’s so true.

[@tinkageorgewilliam871]

@@deborahhercodbooth8011 Yeah. I've been trying out poetry on various topics. It's unpublished though

[@samijefetai6435]

👌👍

[@realitywinner7582]

excellent - God Bless !

[@Hola-jg8oh]

What a treat! Thank you School of life for this beautiful treasure!! You make me happy and full of peace ❤

[@furiosaningveryserious7104]

Oh my goodness. It’s a god send !! 🥰🥰I listen to your “how Proust changes our life “ all the time… how to put a book down… how friends really don’t matter in the end… i find so much consolation in your voice L. Thank you. My students also love you. ❤️❤️🌈

[@Seven7Sense]

I love how the channel is embracing ASMR 😴

[@MarioDuarteMD19]

Can we please have much more of this.

[@WriterusAeternus]

I was starting to fall asleep until the ad popped up and woke me up. 😢

[@theschooloflifetv]

Thank you, we have now turned off mid roll ads on this film.

[@dandanovich6729]

That was great. I certainly need more of such books in your voice. Thanks plenty 😊

[@Inevitable.Change]

I'll just grab some Chamomile and settle into a warm daze before bed. Your voice is incredibly reassuring and soothingly clear.

[@christineduong5480]

I need this on spotify so I can hear Alain's soothing voice luring me into sleep

[@marthasolomon7997]

I put on Alain's videos in a playlist to sleep because his voice is so soothing and cozy like sitting near a fire in the winter and it's drizzling ...and add Proust to that and I'm off ❤️ i wish he'd do the book of disquiet by Fernando pessoa

[@smyerskelley]

oh my gosh, what an incredible idea!

[@acs2735]

I LOVE PROUST! When I was 21, I could translate him fluidly. 29 years later… not so much. Beautifully read! ❤

[@ariskrisn]

Woww that's great! As you did at 21, I'm still on progress to translating Du côte de chez Swann from French into Indonesian. Just started a month ago

[@ianbarbizaniransoli]

I was waiting for something like this to happen… this is superb.

[@jacsulex]

Yeah! It's actually a great idea, @TheSchoolofLife! Been thinking about reading this book since I heard it from one of your videos! I know it's soooo long, but it must be great. I can feel how in love you are with Proust's. I'm not sure I'd be able to read it, but so glad you read an excerpt for us, we have a glimpse of that great book! Am actually searching for some boredom and Insomnia. My busy-ness doesn't allow me to get either of those.

[@abenezerbirhanuzeleke2920]

thank you. please we need the wool book if you can .you're voice the way you narrate I can't even say. thank you

[@k0mmunicat0r]

wow so good to hear you again Alan!

[@martinsapsitis4292]

Thank you Alain, for the Proust introduction and committed generosity of thoughtful share.

[@mridularobert5165]

We need the entire book in Alain's voice!

[@krutibhavsar9534]

It is healing me. His voice is so soothing.

[@TheJaseku]

I love this so much. Thank you for doing this.

[@saltynebula]

Did they found out that I use their philosophy playlist to help me sleep???! 👁️👄👁️

[@khatunakvintskhadze2401]

Please continue reading Proust!

[@declanknittel]

Alain is a genius. Thank you for all that you do!

[@2therazor]

Ohhhh boy that soothing voice is what I needed.

[@vaidascivilis4156]

What a fantastic voice and the reading text, sheer pleasure. ❤

[@icitlalistardust9060]

My favorite joke about the author for decades : « For a longtime I went to bed early »… and thanks to Proust I felt asleep very quickly ! But then, I am French, so everybody here knows the first sentence of « A La recherche du temps perdu »

[@maryamomar3589]

Please for the love of god make more of these. I’d even pay

[@goober123cool]

If Alain could set aside 1-2hr cumulative per week to record In Search for Lost Time, I would pay $79 for the audiobook in the year 2030 when it’s finally finished haha

[@theschooloflifetv]

That's a deal!

[@furzebush7]

Thanks so much. It really works and is so interesting and revealing of Proust. I did think it wouldn't send me to sleep, but it did, magically

[@jibanikaram]

Thank you for this ! Love love it ❤

[@laurencereconnu2961]

Thank you so much, Alain. This is so beautiful and soothing! I miss your voice.

[@jc6168]

Very cool, but what is this translation? So much more beautiful here: "Sometimes, too, as Eve was created from a rib of Adam, a woman would be born during my sleep from some misplacing of my thigh. Conceived from the pleasure I was on the point of enjoying, she it was, I imagined, who offered me that pleasure. My body, conscious that its own warmth was permeating hers, would strive to become one with her, and I would awake. The rest of humanity seemed very remote in comparison with this woman whose company I had left but a moment ago; my cheek was still warm from her kiss, my body ached beneath the weight of hers. If, as would sometimes happen, she had the features of some woman whom I had known in waking hours, I would abandon myself altogether to this end: to find her again, like people who set out on a journey to see with their eyes some city of their desire, and imagine that one can taste in reality what has charmed one’s fancy. And then, gradually, the memory of her would fade away, I had forgotten the girl of my dream. When a man is asleep, he has in a circle round him the chain of the hours, the sequence of the years, the order of the heavenly bodies."

[@xvbd6067]

its like a little piece of mercy in the internet

[@SuperGreatSphinx]

Mercy en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercy

[@TundeEszlari]

Sensational video. 😊

[@BixASMR]

This video is divine and has been added to my sleep/ASMR playlist 🪶

[@saracampo4723]

this is the most beautiful thing…thank you so much

[@vida9970]

Hope like Alain’s voice returning back on videos, articles of the school of life also to become like past a free huge handbook of wisdom.

[@oleg_artene]

ASMR is about something that produces tingly sensation on head and back skin. ASMR is not about calming or sexy gentle stuff.

[@zelleh8847]

Wooooooow a dream come true !

[@tomdooley6713]

Does anyone know where I can find more footage like this? Alain's reading is beautiful, but even just watching that rain over the water in silence has made me more peaceful than I can describe.

[@animamagna3077]

I can only wish Alain De Botton continued his enchanting reading. With my many thanks for this piece.

[@nizasiamehenry]

Thank you ❤️

[@jib4733]

Coulda used this before I had to go to class on three hours of sleep 😭😭

[@keerongill7310]

Where tf was this last night , now it's 8 am and I've had 20 minutes of sleep lol

[@theschooloflifetv]

Good news, it will still be here tonight!

[@LimitlessHoops]

The best 20 of your life is coming up!

[@KoolT]

Pack your troubles up for tomorrow, don't drink coffee after lunch and don't watch the news. Smile at 5 people daily.

[@realitywinner7582]

Now you said it !! God Bless !

[@polynull7072]

I couldn't believe that I would love this channel even more ❤️❤️🥺🥹, More videos please, maybe some more like this and some other that can be more thought provoking but not much of an advice at the same time. I'm glad Alain came back to the channel and waiting for more videos ❤️❤️.

[@pinalimon]

For those who suffer from insomnia, besides Proust, try any law book, the thicker the better. Cheap insomnia pill, lasts forever and has no side effects. Good sleep 💤💤💤

[@TheyCallMeNewb]

I may just bookmark this one. Thoroughly sterling show.

[@elvansavkl7972]

I love Alan's voice.

[@angelarusso2553]

I can not count the amount of times ive heard this to sleep

[@DerekWoolverton]

There's a short glitch near the end where a word or two repeats in the @25:00 minute.

[@gotthatlogb7696]

watching this at 4am, I feel so sleepy now

[@richardedward123]

And I thought I'd never be able to read Proust. I still think I'm right. But this ain't bad. Thank you!

[@soulfulandallthat]

Soothing ❤️

[@JustinFisher777]

These are the best bits of Proust though. De Botton never talks about the hundreds of pages of inane party gossip in the middle that I can't manage to get through. If only it were all like this.

[@Pixel1962]

Aha! Thanks for that, I didn’t know it.

[@miiiaaaooowww]

And it's read by Alain de Botton. Perfect❤️

[@daysarelimited]

My problem with insomnia is that my mind is the most creative when the light is off and ideas just keep popping up in my head whenever I try to sleep ._.

[@wendylewis4591]

Omg this is brilliant❤

[@pacolli]

I’m so into it!!! ❤ Alain!

[@travislund3043]

Is there a way to hear the whole thing? I looked up the School of Life and cannot find the Audiobook. I would like to hear the entire series from you.

[@palomawhite6210]

Beautiful idea 🙂

[@mooxart64]

I always thought his voice was a good fit for ASMR content, I am just surprised it took them so long to have a video of this haha!

[@BarbaraT.]

His voice is stupendous! In the very early days of The School of Life every single video was voiced by Alain de Botton. When, after a while, they began to use other voices I was so disappointed. I obviously understand the practicality of having other people lending their voices, and my disappointment is no reflection on the quality of their contributions at all, but it just isn't the same.

[@mooxart64]

​@@BarbaraT. Oh yes I agree, I remember the only other voice I absolutely loved deeply was the woman who talked on their " On Feeling Melancholy " video. That one helped me a lot. Topic was very soothing, as much as her voice was.

[@BarbaraT.]

@@mooxart64 I'll have to rewatch that video. I remember it, but don't recall the voice. I know what you mean though; much of The School of Life's work has inspired, consoled and soothed me. I hope you're having a serene December.

[@mikaeldume]

The Voice ,Divinity in Motion.😴

[@gracefitzgerald2227]

Mr. Botton talking Proust?! I don’t care if he was shouting it. Straight to favorites!

[@nabeeltharani2950]

Amazing!

[@howtoceline]

Love this! Next time whispered? 😊🌞

[@darshan7771patil]

Please do more videos like this.

[@CareerDropout.]

This is such an old method that still works today. Most are late receiving the info

[@fumetsu4323]

I was in many stories during sleep, but what's common about it they all somehow got to wake me up in some cruel way. As example I was a noble of middle Ages and quickly from simple routine tricked to sacrifice own bloodline for evil entity in most cruel way with own hands and on next day go for suspecting ones to make intrigue go on.

[@RabbyBabu]

I didn't think this would actually help me. I still don't know to be honest, but can we have more of this? I'm tired of my insomnia 😔

[@drbalbon7332]

I'm debating whether to actually read Proust or not. It seems like a huge commitment, one that makes War and Peace look like a casual evening's yarn.

[@mb4472]

If you are a reader generally, then the idea of reading 7 books isn't that outlandish? There's no rush anyway, I took a year over it, using "the corklined room" blog as a guide and it's been a life enhancing gift to self.

[@docm27]

Anyone who managed to get to volume 6 must be far more patient than I could ever be.

[@TheTCPTalk]

oh god someone pls tell me which translation is alain using here?? I tried so many but none match this one!!!

[@theschooloflifetv]

It;s this one: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/292003/swanns-way-by-marcel-proust/#:~:text=About%20Swann's%20Way&text=Now%2C%20Penguin%20Classics%20brings%20Proust's,the%20first%20volume%2C%20Swann's%20Way.

[@meganeffy1]

Proust-a really interesting writer.

we need ALL 7 books

[@AA-wc3tw]

"Cure insomnia" is intentionally deceptive, yo. I thought this channel was better than that.

[@The_Wanderer_And_His_Shadow]

It is beautiful.

[@jbri1]

This is nice

[@Stupify8]

I genuinely cannot believe you've married my two favorite things.

[@tsundoku97]

2 months of insomnia… hoping to change this in the last week of 2022

[@Lisajen-h5u]

Is that Lake Louise in Canada?

[@Curious68]

This would be great if it didn't have ads screaming every few minutes 😞

[@theschooloflifetv]

Thank you, we have turned them off now

[@rex-up9ln]

Ah Finally I can sleep again

[@liyzette]

Any chance you could edit the audio and reduce the sharpness of the “s” and “tch” sounds? I can unfortunately not use this for falling asleep because of those sounds being so loud in this… 😢

[@nkvrbyv]

Can you read the whole book please?

[@miseentrope]

New to Proust...anyone getting feels of early memories of Ishmael of "Moby-Dick?"

[@cafebrasileiro]

this should work.. I always sleep when trying to read this book hahahha

[@slobodantalic6103]

How to mediate in a conflict between people with opostite needs?

[@bencheshire]

Which translation is this, you didnt mention

[@claudius3980]

The one by Lydia Davis