Hello all! We will meet online for a discussion of the SECOND FIFTH of Vol 5: The Captive & The Fugitive of In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust. (Pages 190 to 380 of the Modern Library Classics version; your version's page numbers may vary; Beginning line on page 190 is "I suddenly realized that the young dairy maid was still in the room." and ending line on page 380 is "And doubtless for this reason, the drawing-room in the Rue Montalivet diminished, for Brichot, the Verdurins' present home").
Per Wikipedia, "In Search of Lost Time is considered, by many scholars and critics, to be the definitive modern novel...Virginia Woolf wrote in 1922: 'Oh if I could write like that!.' Harold Bloom wrote that In Search of Lost Time is now 'widely recognized as the major novel of the twentieth century.'" Per the publisher, "Graham Greene considered Marcel Proust 'the greatest novelist of the twentieth century, just as Tolstoy was in the nineteenth.' Edmund Wilson proposed that he was 'perhaps the last great historian of the loves.'
Since the novel is six volumes of about 4,200 pages in total, we will split the readings into 22 meetings of about 200 pages per month, taking a two month break between each volume. (Note: You are welcome to join at any point in the series, and to come and go as you please; you do not need to commit to all 22 meetings.) The entire project will take about 2 years and 4 months per the schedule below:
Vol 1: Swann's Way
Mon 8/29/22: Meeting 1 pgs 1-200 (Modern Library Classics version)
Mon 9/26/22: Meeting 2 pgs 200-400 (Modern Library Classics version)
Mon 10/24/22: Meeting 3 pgs 400-607 (Modern Library Classics version)
Vol 2: Within a Budding Grove
Tue 1/17/23: Meeting 4 pgs 1-200 (Modern Library Classics version)
Wed 2/15/23: Meeting 5 pgs 200-400 (Modern Library Classics version)
Tue 3/14/23: Meeting 6 pgs 400-620 (Modern Library Classics version)
Vol 3: The Guermantes Way
Tue 6/06/23: Meeting 7 pgs 1-200 (Modern Library Classics version)
Wed 7/05/23: Meeting 8 pgs 200-400 (Modern Library Classics version)
Tue 8/01/23: Meeting 9 pgs 400-600 (Modern Library Classics version)
Tue 8/29/23: Meeting 10 pgs 600-820 (Modern Library Classics version)
Vol 4: Sodom and Gomorrah
Mon 11/20/23: Meeting 11 pgs 1-180 (Modern Library Classics version)
Tue 12/19/23: Meeting 12 pgs 180-360 (Modern Library Classics version)
Tue 1/16/24: Meeting 13 pgs 360-540 (Modern Library Classics version)
Tue 2/13/24: Meeting 14 pgs 540-726 (Modern Library Classics version)
Vol 5: The Captive & The Fugitive
Tue 5/07/24: Meeting 15 pgs 1-190 (Modern Library Classics version)
Tue 6/04/24: Meeting 16 pgs 190-380 (Modern Library Classics version)
Tue 7/02/24: Meeting 17 pgs 380-570 (Modern Library Classics version)
Tue 7/30/24: Meeting 18 pgs 570-760 (Modern Library Classics version)
Tue 8/27/24: Meeting 19 pgs 760-936 (Modern Library Classics version)
Vol 6: Time Regained
Tue 11/19/24: Meeting 20 pgs 1-180 (Modern Library Classics version)
Tue 12/17/24: Meeting 21 pgs 180-360 (Modern Library Classics version)
Tue 1/14/25: Meeting 22 pgs 360-535 (Modern Library Classics version)
The page numbers above correspond to the Modern Library version of the Moncrieff-Kilmartin-Enright translation which you can buy on kindle here: https://www.amazon.com/Search-Lost-Time-IV-Book-ebook/dp/B000QCSA86/
Or in print here: https://www.amazon.com/Search-Gomorrah-Modern-Library-Classics/dp/0375753109/
All are welcome!
