Proust’s Genius Artistic Philosophy

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10 life lessons you can learn from Marcel Proust and his masterpiece In Search of Lost Time (a la recherche du temps perdu). Marcel Proust is considered the best 20th-century French writer whose novel 'A la recherche du temps Perdu' (In search of Lost Time) goes deep into what it means to be human and by what philosophy we should live our life.
Marcel Proust was a 20th Century French novelist who wrote in Search of Lost Time in French over a period of 14 years from 1913 to 1927.
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0:00 intro
01:01 Lesson 1: Authenticity (how to find your true self)
03:23 Lesson 2: Suffering (how to turn it into art)
05:12 Lesson 3: Time (how to tame the beast)
07:23 Lesson 4: Work (how to work like an artist)
09:08 Lesson 5: Change (How to see your being is a process)
10:58 Lesson 6: Books (How to nourish your imagination)
12:47 Lesson 7: Creativity (how to have new eyes)
14:55 Lesson 8: Fear (how future doesn't exist)
16:48 Lesson 9: Possession (How to own nothing)
18:26 Lesson 10: Meaning (How death gives life a meaning)
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Other videos on Proust: **Full Summary of In Search of Lost Time: kzbin.info/www/bejne/f5emoXSffdurea8 **Short Summary of In Search of Lost Time**: kzbin.info/www/bejne/amjdlWqAfsmJmac **Proust and 6 French Stereotypes** kzbin.info/www/bejne/maeQqaKXd6plpdU

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[@anniekuruvila5273]

We are all but passengers in the wide scop of experiences one can attain.In all it's beauty and tradigy. Our lives are but a tear drop in the oceans of time and space.

[@supremereader7614]

"You find what you want after you stop wanting it." I had never heard that, I'd never really heard much of Prust to be honest until this video. Thanks again for making such great literature accessible.

[@Fiction_Beast]

Thank you so much for your support!

[@lainpadang8033]

I heard this from the Budhism ⅛⁷²²⁰⁶⅖

[@alainspiteri502]

Suprême Reader : if you want see " a la recherche du temps perdu " it's the ballet " Intermittences du coeur " coreographer Roland-Petit wonderfull ballet music about the spirit the soûl of M Proust

[@flmks]

""When someone is searching," said Siddhartha, "then it might easily happen that the only thing his eyes still see is that what he searches for, that he is unable to find anything, to let anything enter his mind, because he always thinks of nothing but the object of his search, because he has a goal, because he is obsessed by the goal. Searching means: having a goal. But finding means: being free, being open, having no goal. You, oh venerable one, are perhaps indeed a searcher, because, striving for your goal, there are many things you don't see, which are directly in front of your eyes."" Siddhartha, Herman Hesse

[@sirreal725]

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[@Doogle136]

It is hard to express to you how satisfying your videos have become for me. Long past my academic years and facing the reality of senior-hood, your presentations raise my spirit by reawakening my affinity for philosophical contemplation and being present. Thank you so much for all that you are doing for your followers.

[@Fiction_Beast]

Wow, thank you!

[@johnmanole4779]

​@@Fiction_Beast why don't you make a video with tips, advices for people who want to start writing themselves? I think that will be interesting .

[@anypercentdeathless]

Likely a lie. Academics don't write so poorly.

[@Frodohack]

It took me hours to finish, going back and forth and taking notes. It has been one of the most inspiring video that I found. It reason with me and I got really interested in reading more about Proust. But it's not only Proust himself. This is the video that each artist should look at. And other that artists, this video is probably for everyone, in particular people that mirror themself with Marcel and all the doubts and question that you answered with the words of Proust. A great job

[@viktoriaregis6645]

I just love your analysis. They are sharp, encouraging and right on the spot. Things I didnt think of before becomes so clear and obvious.

[@Nomad12780]

I wanted to pursue philosophy but have started law school... your videos are the best. I love your analysis and it gives me an escape from my reality to what I wanted to pursue. Maybe one day I will pursue philosophy but for now your videos help me in keeping me afloat.

[@carywarren7800]

A philosophic lawyer. Much needed but rare. Justice, honor, integrity. Best of luck mate

[@Nomad12780]

@@carywarren7800 Thank you so very much.

[@dazzoia6216]

@@Nomad12780 how is it now ? I'm hoping you found what you wanted whatever it is today

[@Delfin63]

Proust was optimistic because he knew maternal love and with it he learned to love his contemporaries

[@Fiction_Beast]

Good point.

[@iuliaionelapetcu1411]

Brilliant observation. Maternal love is the very first form of affection we experience and it is ultimately fundamental. When one lacks it, they find it more difficult to connect and understand others, at least in my view.

[@MsViollentia]

@@iuliaionelapetcu1411 I think lacking it can make someone so understanding and fluid to the point of having no boundaries and feeling enmeshed with other people.

[@richardwestwood8212]

You said everything comes and goes but art remains. I like that, you sound like an ancient Greek philosopher.

[@100meek7]

you are passing forward so important aspect of the essence of humanity through this channel. thank you for doing this amazing work ❤️

[@Tc-ih8zj]

Thank You for your wise analysis. The 10 lessons are thoughtful & meaningful, as I start reading Proust for the 1st time. The "Quotes" are a lovely selection, allowing the man himself to speak directly to us the viewers & more so, the readers. Grateful!

[@Fiction_Beast]

You're very welcome

[@XX-vg6pk]

Good work dude....maybe making videos to let others know about this is art on itself

[@Fiction_Beast]

appreciate it mate!

[@winniethuo9736]

@@Fiction_Beast I am in awe because for the longest time I wanted to read and review but my attempt has been put off by life. You have emerged and I thank you for bringing those who come by near god reads. 👏🏾

[@DanHintz]

exactly what i was thinking--turning people on to proust is almost as important and laudable as the work itself.

[@jungao6470]

10:24 "I felt myself still reliving a past which was no longer anything more than the history of another person."---Marcel Proust

[@BluetheRaccoon]

This is where I'm at in my own personal development, having processed a great deal of childhood and early adulthood traumas.

[@tompribyl2884]

This video has inspired me to begin In Search of Lost Time. THANK YOU.

[@pamelaj1226]

Matt! So well done. Through your love of Proust you have inspired me to start the journey through his art. Thank you for your courage in showing your art.

[@Phorquieu]

Very interesting video indeed! You have mined Proust's books to find the gold he stored away in their many pages... So this means that Proust lived for your (and our) benefit. That was very good of him, and this video of yours is very good of you! (The task remains now for each of us, your audience, to do something, somehow, that will enrich the world, too, and leave it a better place than the one we came into.)

[@centurionstrengthandfitnes3694]

This really is particularly good. Content like this is a rare light in the deep black pit that is KZbin.

[@DrinkWater713]

It's a good thing you made this video because I'll never subject myself to the torture of actually reading In Search of Lost Time

[@iuliaionelapetcu1411]

It's ironic that it was Virginia Woolf who said what is there to be written after Proust, when is one of the very few whose greatness I could compare to his. I've first read In Search of Lost Time when I was bery young and though I lacked the wisdom and maturity I posses now, it still moved me very much and it's a book that I will (re)read for the remaining of my life. Each time it feels like a slighlty different experience.

[@sergioalves5278]

Do Brasil, Iulia. Como é maravilhoso encontrar alguém dizer que vai ler Proust por toda a vida. Eu AMO AMO Proust." Desco ri-o" aos 30 snos, estou com 61; já li e reli The Search 6 vezes desde então, sempre com descobertas e com mais prazer a cada releitura. Quase todo dia, tomo um volume da estante e leio 10 páginas, aleatoriamente. Saudações, Iulia.

[@edgarspaegle3102]

Recently I was reading some of the Steven Pinker’s books and I think it was in “Rationality” where I stumbled on a quote by Homer Simpson. By paraphrasing it went something like this: “It will be a problem of future Homer and I don’t envy that guy”. Now I know where Marcel Proust got his ideas. Thank you for creating these videos! It is great pleasure to listen to them and I learn a lot.

[@Fiction_Beast]

😃

[@akeithing1841]

'Today, although worse than yesterday is at least better than tomorrow!' -old Russian saying

[@2msvalkyrie529]

" Life sucks ; then you die " One of Homer Simpson's most perceptive insights. Who knew he was an existentialist..? ..?

[@yasminkhan1158]

Thankyou so much for this beautiful video. You really have great insights. Thankyou. Live long. You will one day be recognized for all the hard work you are placing in your videos. ♥️

[@Fiction_Beast]

Thanks so much!

[@pascalelandry8630]

That was a great video, nice work! Thank you!

[@moshefabrikant1]

4:40 Suffering and the other end is necessary to make us feel better the loss and learn about them. And to fly up to feel the greatness of life. Like when we are close to death 11:10 When we read books we read ourselves

[@korbysbookclub5964]

Really enjoying these thoughtful explorations of great literature. Thank you for your work.

[@Fiction_Beast]

Appreciate it.

[@walk_london]

Excellent analysis. Thank you!

[@chandanadixit]

Amazing summary!!!! ❤️

[@artofmusic303]

Outstanding, insightful, useful for both art and life. Surprisingly in harmony with eastern philosophical traditions. I will be re-watching this video many times.

[@Fiction_Beast]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@Crazyibbes]

That was a crazy lesson, awakening for the little us inside of us :)

[@Fiction_Beast]

Thank you!

[@poetrification]

This is the best KZbin video ever! Thanks a ton.

[@Fiction_Beast]

Really appreciate it.

[@AbdallahBotan]

Thank you man. I loved it. So much.

[@qd4051]

Interesting analysis of Proust. Thank you.

[@jasiowpl]

Thank You for Your great videos.

[@sandrasupportsyou]

First, Matt I love your love for literature and philosophy and how they blend together into an amazing human legacy. Second, I want to run to McLeod's Second Hand Books here in Vancouver and find In Search of Lost Time. It had them in my possession at some point and carted them to the various apartments then I went to Spain to dance flamenco and knew Marcel would understand the need to travel light, but now with the last taste of cafe au lait and toast on my tongue, I'm running to recapture the memories of the selves now long gone, to move slowly to places where my father and I skimmed waters, now gone dry, in his boat. I want to refeel what has been for me as I read the voice of an invisible friend casting a net of his selves towards me to pull me back into time, into vitalité. Third -- a recommendation - "A Tale for the Time Being" by Ruth Ozeki ... here, it is as if zen master Dogen and Proust meet in a Japanese teenager who wants to end her time on the planet. Finally, please keep doing your wonderful work of inspiring us to dive into the world's within another and within ourselves ... and merge. Merci Beaucoup mon ami et Mon Prof

[@DaleBhagwagar]

Wow, wow, wow and more wow. I love you now. Yes, I had some complaints, but I love you now. This video. Oh. What can I say. Words cannot describe how good it is. Thank you.🙏🏼 More power to you.

[@147Dalia]

Thank you for these videos.

[@Fiction_Beast]

My pleasure!

[@BaritoneUkeBeast4Life]

I don't know if I agree "That Suffering Makes Us Think" as much as I would say that thinking makes us suffer. When one has a brief relief from thinking they are at peace, once thinking seeps back in all the troubles of the world seep in with it. One never has as many problems as when one is thinking.

[@Fiction_Beast]

Proust meant suffering gives us insights. Happy people tend not create or change things. I think you mean negative or overthinking makes us suffer which I agree.

[@BaritoneUkeBeast4Life]

@@Fiction_Beast Your interpretation of Proust's meaning in this case makes a lot more sense now that I understand it better and not simply taking it literally and at face value. I whole heartedly agree. Yes, happy people tend to keep the status quo as is, especially not changing within. Suffering reveals the need for change. And yes you are correct I did mean that negative or overthinking which describes the vast majority of thoughts for most people is what causes us to suffer.

[@lunabrady7670]

Quote: "Each of us sees clarity only in those ideas which have the same degree of confusion as his own."

[@ThirdLens]

Wow this is an amazing video you have created. So much to learn from. Wonderful work!

[@Fiction_Beast]

Thank you!

[@jankoszuta9835]

Brilliant video. I've saved it to listen to again

[@JamesColeman1]

One of the best videos I've seen.

[@Fiction_Beast]

Thank you!

[@TheJojoaruba52]

Thank you. Very educational.

[@merritt972]

Finishing my second reading of Proust in this lifetime I am constantly looking back on my own.

[@retrospect3-2-15]

Thoroughly enjoyed this :) best video I have watched in a long time. I take my hat of to your Sir!

[@Fiction_Beast]

Wow, thanks!

[@honorladone8682]

Wanting isn't having.

[@haikushack]

Thank you for sharing this video with me. I enjoyed watching it very much!

[@Fiction_Beast]

That’s great to hear.

[@joshua_fry_speed9449]

This is a great video thanks 🙏

[@AbdallahSaleh20]

Excellent video

[@Jeff05Hardy]

as always, great vid

[@Fiction_Beast]

Really appreciate your kind words.

[@DanHintz]

great job on these proust vids, man. you should do a similar treatment of the key works of david foster wallace.

[@gracefitzgerald2227]

This was wonderful, thank you.

[@Fiction_Beast]

Awesome! Thank you!

[@debashishdas506]

I respect darkness always as the dark phase in my life helps me to understand others and more than that myself and the eternal power inside me.

[@jmsl910]

excellent work

[@Fiction_Beast]

Thanks 😅

[@thomaspynchon8400]

Can you make detailed summary of each book. I love this channel.

[@Fiction_Beast]

That’s a great idea. I think I will make one. I’m in the middle of making another video on Proust, his connection to the French culture.

[@thomaspynchon8400]

@@Fiction_Beast really looking forward to watching it 👏

[@Fiction_Beast]

It will be a while though. I got so many books right now.

[@inanedreamz673]

Excellent stuff, inspires me to push through swann’s way

[@maya_taher]

Gr8 work thank you

[@Fiction_Beast]

Most welcome 😊

[@HarpreetSingh-gv4lo]

Excellent

[@Fiction_Beast]

For a summary of Marcel Proust's novel, In Search of Lost Time, watch my other video here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/amjdlWqAfsmJmac

[@callithasmed8468]

Suffering can also distort you into something too intellectually disturbed to express oneself non-destructively.

[@Fiction_Beast]

Yes only a handful of people can challenge *(channel) it into a piece of art.

[@mounia128]

Madeleine de Proust ! AWESOME 💕💕💕🙏

[@timidlove]

the beauty of nature, society and the inside out of human it captured are to me, "like a polychrome cathedral of the deep"

[@rosesaredark]

Amazing video, and amazing explanation Thank you

[@Fiction_Beast]

You're very welcome! I am glad you enjoyed it.

[@urimtefiki226]

Inspiration makes me think.

[@alainspiteri502]

" Intermittences du cœur " is a wonderfull ballet and music about the different lifes of Marcel Proust with his " Recherche du temps perdu " must see absolutely this ballet coreographer Roland Petit on KZbin !

[@darrylthomas815]

Well done. Approved.

[@Fiction_Beast]

Thank you!

[@Abhising29]

anyone have page numbers for the quotes he mentions in each lesson? Great explanations as always!

[@JeremydePrisco]

Great content. Recommend a pop filter on your mic, and/or roll off some low end on your voice channel.

[@junevandermark952]

The scientist Stephen Hawking believed that in one form or another, the universe always existed. If his system of belief just happened to be correct, then consciousness and suffering of all forms of life is natural, and there never was any judge-mental creator in existence, or any afterlife where souls of only humans go to be punished or rewarded.

[@gracerodgers8952]

Suffering makes us think...if we think first,we may not have to suffer.

[@asoulist4829]

The highest hope should be to have the greatest possible now.

[@user-or7ji5hv8y]

This is the best video analysis on Proust.

[@Fiction_Beast]

It’s wonderful to hear that. Merci!

[@xiangli683]

So well explained, thank you so much. Proust is the true God.

[@bradleybenson2944]

Damn dude!!!! You got a gift

[@Fiction_Beast]

Thanks mate!

[@maxmillianmaximovich1829]

Great video! Maybe you'd tackle Nabokov? 😁

[@Fiction_Beast]

Great suggestion! I have not read anything by him. I will see what I can do.

[@vicomtedevalmont1073]

@@Fiction_Beastif you love Proust you will love Nabokov. He is a student of Proust, this is greatly displayed in Ada, or Ardor, which is in my estimation his greatest work.

[@LeafbyLeaf]

Outstanding video! I’m watching it now-on point 3-but has to stop and post this comment. Really well done work. OK, back to it...

[@Fiction_Beast]

Thank you so much! It means a lot to hear you say so.

[@kaiftintoiwala6414]

Great video thank you

[@Fiction_Beast]

You’re welcome. Glad you liked it.

[@yusmildaproust4733]

Great!!..my cousin

[@abbassoubh6344]

Marcel Proust ❤

[@edwardnashen5960]

Very intelligent and and illuminating. Excellent!

[@bobbyleewv]

If suffering makes us think, does thinking make us suffer?

[@Fiction_Beast]

Overthinking makes suffer. Thinking makes us sharper to understand things.

[@peggyfranzen6159]

Prosperity makes one think! Hire above yourself- get it.

[@alichoudhary9156]

you have an artistic way of describing yourself

[@jdzentrist8711]

Thank you. I'm going to have to sleep on it....

[@farahali5754]

Yes

[@TheInestyle]

Thank you.

[@Fiction_Beast]

You’re very welcome!

[@jamesgoolsby702]

In what way was Proust different from America’s Thomas Wolfe.. Both sought to solve the enigma of time.. Thomas Wolfe might be said to have lived his life twice..through his writing of lost time. ..”.. of a leaf..a stone..an unfound door..o lost and by the wind grieved ghost come back again”

[@Fiction_Beast]

I don’t know much about Tom Wolfe. I’m intrigued.

[@ericwinnert]

Thinking makes us suffer.

[@Fiction_Beast]

Overthinking

[@timnray99]

Proust's greatest achievement for me is proving the patricians to be the real plebians...

[@Tom-lz3pf]

Hello thanks for the video. Did you read Proust in English? If so, can you recommend a translation?

[@Fiction_Beast]

Yes in English. I recommend the penguin classics version translated by various people but pretty good. There’s also a free version on Gutenberg org if you like to read on kindle

[@zen-ventzi-marinov]

This channel is crazily good. Are you crazy or good?

[@Fiction_Beast]

You have to be crazy to be great! Good is another thing.

[@derekreed6798]

It's a funny title as thinking actually makes us suffer.

[@plekkchand]

Would be nice to include citations.

[@jdb6026]

Artists before: To produce art is to suffer. Artists today: To produce art is to be a victim. /s

[@edwardnashen5960]

Want to know more!!!

[@Fiction_Beast]

I have three more videos on Proust. Search my channel

[@freeparticle5068]

Marcel Proust's masterpiece is "Remembrance of things past" not "In search of lost time" which is a word by word translation

[@jackieblewett641]

When you are quoting, you have to give full citation. Thanks.

[@laurenth7187]

You probably didn't suffer a lot.... What one should see in La recherche, is that despite supposed nostalgia, all it ends by a chapter named The recovered time, and that leads to a a conclusion that the Recherche was useless, and that the goal is to continue a creative work. So he continues writing, that's the sens of his life. But that's not the sens i give to the book. In fact, one is conveyed, everyone is conveyed in his life, to make this "Recherche ... " at moment in life when times begins to run short, or parents are dying, etc. At a difficult period of life, everyone is searching for an understanding, and begins to recap what he knows, and also on the biographic level what he has experienced, so it's this huge impulsion to think, when we have difficulties, that launches this maniac recovering of souvenirs, in the hope there will be an answer, or a solution, for our problems. That's what everybody should be mind of... we all make this "Recherche... " when we are in a dire situation, with the hope to understand what went wrong. This is our brain walking around everything it knows. This "Recherche..." is the product of a helpless mind searching a way out, of it's misery. While he doesn't know, he starts from the beginning, like at the last judgement telling who he is. Same for Rousseau's Confessions... or everyone's confession, as believer. Or in therapy. You should definitively give up the idea all your philosophers gives solutions ! they don't ! Because there isn't.

[@eldonng6576]

are all these quotes in the stories?

[@Fiction_Beast]

In In Search of Lost Time

[@altayebali9584]

Wish you to talk about Arab-african novel (season of migration to the north) by Altayeb Salih

[@Fiction_Beast]

I did. Search my page.

[@christopherbriscoe8665]

What does patiche mean?

[@Fiction_Beast]

pastiche: imitating another writer

[@heyyou5773]

♥️

[@pennylaughlin3235]

IMO it’s thinking that makes us suffer.

[@hansfrankfurter2903]

I don’t need to suffer to think.

[@leastimnotarepublican]

If that's the case and I've outpaced most, what do you think that means. It's "Taken" but I have to stay on the phone and work at Walmart for a decade. I put the fear of God in invincible people who thought they were playing God. I believe I still do.