Best-selling author Alain de Botton has said reading Proust can change your life. A lot of us have always meant to read Proust, yet when forced to choose between him and a Candace Bushnell novel, you know what happens. Now is your chance to get motivated! In a series of three lectures, Gretel Furner (grad of Oxford, prof at GW) will present the first book of Proust’s masterpiece In Search of Lost Time in a new translation by Lydia Davis. Find out why no writer has ever captured as well the richness of childhood experience nor the delicate pleasures of fin de siècle France. Participants should bring along a paperback edition of Marcel Proust’s The Way by Swann’s, published by Penguin Books (2002) and available at most English language bookshops in Paris.
March 7, 14, 21/ 10:30am-12/ 60 euros/ www.wice-paris.org
