Marcel Proust Remembrance of Things Past /

Withdrawing from the glittering high society he had so avidly courted, Marcel Proust spent the last decade of his life in virtual isolation, writing and revising Remembrance of Things Past. This program focuses on an intriguing dramatization of part seven of Proust's magnum opus, in which narra...

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Other Authors: Digital Classics (Firm)., Films for the Humanities & Sciences (Firm), Infobase.
Format: Electronic
Language: English
Published: New York, N.Y. : Infobase, [2013], c1987.
Physical Description: 1 streaming video file (60 min.) : sd., col.
Series: Great writers of the modern world.
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Table of Contents:
  • Stumbling Upon Memory (3:00)
  • Memory and the Being Within (3:31)
  • Goal of "A La Recherché" (0:59)
  • Childhood Memory (2:54)
  • Mother's Kiss Goodnight (3:35)
  • Nature of "A La Recherché" (2:57)
  • Two Paths (1:12)
  • Appreciation of Nature (3:32)
  • Misunderstanding Signals (2:11)
  • Sex (1:46)
  • Art, Fragments and Eternity (3:07)
  • Unconscious Memory (2:03)
  • Purpose of Art (1:48)
  • Guermantes Way (2:08)
  • High Society (2:37)
  • Paris Life (2:16)
  • Decadent Aristocracy (2:27)
  • Studying Character (1:41)
  • Impressions and Truth (1:43)
  • Albertine (1:35)
  • Marcel's Task (1:01)
  • Gilberte's Daughter (3:42)
  • Purpose of Literature (1:37)
  • Experts on "A la recherché" (2:25)
  • Intense Devotion to Task (1:41)
  • Idea of Perfection (0:42)
  • Credits: Marcel Proust: Remembrance of Things Past (1:02)