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May 13, 6:30pm-8pm
Join other readers at this online discussion on Zoom of Marcel Prousts' Swann's Way Led by Peter Burns.
About This Month's Book:

In the opening volume of Marcel Proust's Remembrance of Things Past, the narrator travels back in time to recall his childhood and to introduce the listener to Charles Swann, a wealthy friend of the family and celebrity in the Parisian social scene. He again travels back, this time to the youth of Charles Swann in the French town of Combray, to tell the story of the love affair that took place before his own birth. The jealous love that Swann feels for the courtesan Odette, is a foretelling of the narrator's own future relationships.

Proust paints an unforgettable, scathing and at times comic portrait of French society at the close of the 19th century and reveals a profound vision of obsessive love. The remarkable details from his memory are the fundamental triumph of the audiobook; details like his younger self's desperate need for a goodnight kiss from his mother.

 

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Meeting ID: 514 917 087

Suggested Age Group: Adult

Date: 
May 13, 2020 - 6:30pm - 8:00pm