{"id":58136,"date":"2024-11-11T10:00:30","date_gmt":"2024-11-11T16:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.publicbooks.org\/?p=58136"},"modified":"2026-01-16T20:10:32","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T02:10:32","slug":"proust-curious-the-captive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.publicbooks.org\/proust-curious-the-captive\/","title":{"rendered":"Proust Curious: \u201cThe Captive\u201c"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/proust-curious\/id1764330975\"><em>Proust Curious<\/em><\/a> is a podcast miniseries about the experience of reading <em>\u00c0 la recherche du temps perdu<\/em> in its entirety.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Having returned to Paris with the narrator, hosts Emma Claussen and Hannah Weaver enter the claustrophobic and surveilled world of the household he has set up with his object of obsession, Albertine. In concert with the narrator, we ask: What does it mean to love someone? How (or to what extent) can we know anybody? How could jealousy be the key to understanding time? Plus, we\u2019ll answer the question, \u201cWhat gift of nature would you like to have?\u201d Join us as we search for lost time and remember things Proust.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"width: 100%; max-width: 660px; overflow: hidden; border-radius: 10px;\" src=\"https:\/\/embed.podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/the-captive-la-prisonni%C3%A8re\/id1764330975?i=1000676431838\" height=\"175\" frameborder=\"0\" sandbox=\"allow-forms allow-popups allow-same-origin allow-scripts allow-storage-access-by-user-activation allow-top-navigation-by-user-activation\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"nonindented\"><em>Subscribe to <\/em>Proust Curious<em>\u00a0on <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/proust-curious\/id1764330975\">Apple <\/a><\/em>or <em><a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/1rVUMs0XA4xBbvPgEeGGyZ\">Spotify<\/a> to listen and to be notified when new episodes are released. The\u00a0RSS feed is available <a href=\"https:\/\/feeds.zencastr.com\/f\/YO8tMJ4F.rss\">here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"nonindented\"><em>View a transcript of the episode <a href=\"https:\/\/www.publicbooks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/PC5-Transcript.pdf\">here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4>resources<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.library.illinois.edu\/rbx\/kolbproust\/proust\/qst\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Proust Questionnaire<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.penguinrandomhouse.com\/books\/226026\/the-modern-library-in-search-of-lost-time-complete-and-unabridged-6-book-bundle-by-marcel-proust-translated-by-c-k-scott-moncrieff-terence-kilmartin-and-andreas-mayor-revised-by-d-j-enright\/\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In Search of Lost Time<\/span><\/i> <\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(trans. Moncrieff, Kilmartin, and Mayor; rev. Enright)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ottessa Moshfegh,<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/My_Year_of_Rest_and_Relaxation\"> <i>My Year of Rest and Relaxation<\/i><\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Victoria Baena, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/yalereview.org\/article\/victoria-baena-in-search-of-albertine#:~:text=Victoria%20Baena%20is%20a%20Research,Los%20Angeles%20Review%20of%20Books\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cIn Search of Albertine\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Autographe_Proust_Intermittences.JPG\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Logo image<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> \u201cThe possession of what we love is an even greater joy than love itself.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":58142,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1972,2412],"tags":[608,2414,302,1712,1116,2415],"pbpartner":[],"section":[1132],"pbseries":[],"class_list":["post-58136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-podcast","category-proust-curious","tag-french-literature","tag-in-search-of-lost-time","tag-paris","tag-podcast","tag-proust","tag-proust-curious","section-literary-fiction"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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