{"id":57663,"date":"2024-10-14T10:00:51","date_gmt":"2024-10-14T15:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.publicbooks.org\/?p=57663"},"modified":"2026-01-16T20:10:36","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T02:10:36","slug":"proust-curious-the-guermantes-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.publicbooks.org\/proust-curious-the-guermantes-way\/","title":{"rendered":"Proust Curious: \u201cThe Guermantes Way\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

Proust Curious<\/em><\/a> is a podcast miniseries about the experience of reading \u00c0 la recherche du temps perdu<\/em> in its entirety.<\/p>\n

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Hosts <\/span>Emma Claussen<\/span> and Hannah Weaver enter the glamorous and bleak world of <\/span>fin-de-si\u00e8cle <\/span><\/i>Paris through the ironic gaze of the narrator. With new access to the chicest salons, their witty denizens, and their gauche intruders, the narrator finds himself a spectator at the drama of social interaction \u2013 even as his beloved grandmother grows sick and dies. We talk about the advent of new technology (the telephone) and hot debates (the Dreyfus affair). As he enters the world of <\/span>salons<\/span><\/i>, the narrator uncovers the relativity of truth and the hypocrisy of society through the lens of the Affair, the signal anti-semitic scandal of the time. The architecture of the novel emerges alongside the narrator\u2019s growing social acumen. Plus, we ponder the question, \u201cWhere would you like to live?\u201d Join us as we search for lost time and remember things Proust.<\/span><\/p>\n

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