{"id":58429,"date":"2024-12-09T10:00:08","date_gmt":"2024-12-09T16:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.publicbooks.org\/?p=58429"},"modified":"2026-01-16T20:10:30","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T02:10:30","slug":"proust-curious-time-regained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.publicbooks.org\/proust-curious-time-regained\/","title":{"rendered":"Proust Curious: \u201cTime Regained\u201c"},"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 Emma Claussen and Hannah Weaver join the narrator for one last search for lost time, rejoicing with him as he finds it by stumbling on a paving stone in the courtyard of the Princesse de Guermantes\u2019s house, and dreams about the book he finally knows he can write\u2014if he can only live long enough. The shadow of mortality is cast not only by the Great War, which ends some time before this \u201cregaining\u201d\u00a0of lost time, but in the iconic \u201cbal des t\u00eates\u201d scene in which the narrator suddenly notices that he and everyone else he knows has gotten older as time has passed. We giddily discuss Proust\u2019s vision of art and his theory of time, and how he brings his \u201cunfinished\u201d novel to a virtuosic conclusion. Plus, we answer the question, \u201cWho is your favorite heroine?\u201d Join us as we search for lost time and remember things Proust.<\/span><\/p>\n