“From Bali to Paris, the readers in Véronique Aubouy’s huge project, ‘Proust Lu’ (‘Proust Read’), have been captured in bedrooms, offices, supermarkets, factories and beauty spots. Farmers, schoolchildren, businessmen, even the French director’s doctor have participated. ‘It’s a slice of life,’ Ms Aubouy says; ‘a reading about time, in time.’ The cast is as diverse as the novel’s, brought together by their own web of connections and coincidences.”
—”A tag-team reading of ‘In Search of Lost Time’.” The Economist. February 6, 2021.
I love this idea. I’ve picked up the first volume of Proust’s book, and I didn’t like it. I stopped maybe 50 pages in. But, I can imagine tackling the novel in this way. It’s ~4,000 pages long. If you wanted to read it in a year, you’d need to read 11 pages a day. It’s doable, but it seems like a tough slog.
But, 2 pages a day over the course of 6 years, assuming you missed a couple of hundred days and added a page or two here and there? That seems to be exactly the kind of reading this book calls for.
Also, some of the readings from Proust Lu are on YouTube, in French, bien sûr.
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