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The Villa Albertine and the AFDC wanted to celebrate France\u2019s most prolific 20th century author,\u00a0Marcel Proust<\/strong>\u00a0in 2021 (150th birth anniversary) and 2022 (100th death anniversary). However, the pandemic precluded us from launching the project earlier. This year, 2023, marks the 110th anniversary of the publication of the first volume of\u00a0\u00c0 la recherche du temps perdu \/ In Search of Lost Time<\/em><\/strong>, so this long-coming project is a true celebration of Literature. Join us for a Proust Reading Night as a listener<\/em><\/strong>. Participants will recite their favorite passages from \u00c0 la recherche du temps perdu \/ In Search of Lost Time <\/em>in different languages: French, English, Italian, Turkish, etc. This event is part of a series of events dedicated to Marcel Proust in partnership with the Alliance Fran\u00e7aise of Washington D.C. Join us also for a screening of “Time Regained” on November 1st at the Maison Fran\u00e7aise, and a Panel Discussion about the relevance of Marcel Proust today at the AFDC on November 2nd.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Are you an avid reader of Proust? Have you read some (or all?) of his 7 volumes of \u00c0 la recherche du temps perdu<\/em> in French or in translation? Or maybe you have never dared to read Marcel Proust, and would love to start one day? Either way, you would enjoy this evening where you will be able to immerse yourself in the universe of the most prolific 20th century author!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The idea of this event started in 2020 with the lockdown. Sarah Diligenti, AFDC Executive Director, and about 100 other people decided to read (or re-read) Proust, an author known for having voluntarily self-confined because of his health. Indeed, Proust suffered from asthma, and it has been said that his long sentences reflected his labored breathing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When they started reading La Recherche<\/em>, they adopted the hashtag #ProustTogether<\/em><\/strong>, and committed to read 10 to 15 pages daily and to comment on Twitter. They followed the schedule established by the leader of the reading group, Mike Wipfler-Kim.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They found solace in La Recherche<\/em> and in sharing their thoughts on Twitter, transforming the virtual world of social media into a close-knit group of friends, still in touch with each other and still reading together. They joked that Twitter with its 280-character limit would not have appealed to Marcel Proust (or he would have been the King of Twitter threads!).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Most of them read Proust in English, some in Spanish, in German, in Dutch, in Russian, and a couple (Sarah herself included) in French. As Sarah describes: “We thought about how he survived the Spanish Flu, probably because by that time he was already bed-ridden; we lived our own confinement in sync with his words. We traveled through Time and Memory with him, through Literature, Art, and Music, through the landscapes of Normandy, the soirees of Faubourg Saint-Germain, the way to Swann and the way to Guermantes along the Vivonne, breathing in the bewitching fragrance of the ‘aub\u00e9pines’…” A podcast of this Great Reading project is available here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":314147,"menu_order":0,"template":"","app_discipline":[213],"app_city_tax":[226],"app_event_type":[243],"class_list":["post-314127","app_event","type-app_event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","app_discipline-literature","app_city_tax-dc","app_event_type-performance"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nProust Celebration : Marcel Proust Reading Night - Villa Albertine<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/va\/events\/proust-celebration-marcel-proust-reading-night\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Proust Celebration : Marcel Proust Reading Night - Villa Albertine\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Villa Albertine and the AFDC wanted to celebrate France\u2019s most prolific 20th century author,\u00a0Marcel Proust\u00a0in 2021 (150th birth anniversary) and 2022 (100th death anniversary). 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