Proust Curious Archives - Public Books https://www.publicbooks.org/category/podcast/proust-curious/ a magazine of ideas, arts, and scholarship Sat, 17 Jan 2026 02:10:39 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://www.publicbooks.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/cropped-favicon-2-300x300.png Proust Curious Archives - Public Books https://www.publicbooks.org/category/podcast/proust-curious/ 32 32 Proust Curious: “The Guermantes Way” https://www.publicbooks.org/proust-curious-the-guermantes-way/ Mon, 14 Oct 2024 15:00:51 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=57663 “So, too, the truth in politics, when one goes to well-informed men and imagines that one is about to grasp it, eludes one.”

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]]> Proust Curious: “In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower” https://www.publicbooks.org/proust-curious-in-the-shadow-of-young-girls-in-flower/ Mon, 30 Sep 2024 15:00:39 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=57405 “Thus it can be only after one has recognized, not without having had to feel one’s way, the optical illusions of one’s first impression that one can arrive at an exact knowledge of another person, supposing such knowledge to be ever possible.”

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]]> Proust Curious: “Swann’s Way” https://www.publicbooks.org/episode-1-swanns-way/ Mon, 16 Sep 2024 15:00:25 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=57297 “The memory of a particular image is but regret for a particular moment. And houses, roads, avenues are as fugitive, alas, as the years.”

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