Marcel Proust, the Red Shoes of the Duchess - In Search of Lost Time

HOW TO WATCH THIS VIDEO:. When you see text in white, stop the video ( ▌▌) and read (it's only presented for two seconds). When finished, press 'play' again (►). Simple comme bonjour!
The texts are quotations from Proust's monumental novel: In Search of Lost Time (À la Recherche du Temps Perdu). To read the whole volume in English see:
http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks03/0300411.txt
The scene of the duchess's red shoes is characteristic for his work, and could form a good start reading the whole book (seven volumes!). For more on the red shoes of the duchess, see Yolande Jansen (academic stuff):
http://home.medewerker.uva.nl/h.y.m.jansen/bestanden/JRS3_1_04%20Jansen.pdf
The images are from Volker Schlöndorff's movie (1984): Swann in Love (Un amour de Swann), starring Jeremy Irons (Charles Swann), Fanny Ardant (Duchesse de Guermantes), Jacques Boudet (Duke de Guermantes).
Music: Camille Saint-Saëns, Adagio of the Sonata for Piano and Violin no. 1 in D minor, op. 75 by Avner Arad. Proust scholars have speculated endlessly on what is the "real life" equivalent of Proust's famous "little phrase". The adagio is one of the suggestions. To download this music in mp3:
http://www.gardnermuseum.org/music/listen/music_library?filter=composer#go_2645
(at 6 min 39 sec)
The timing and translation of the cc's is of course not a success, to say the least, but perhaps: 'something is better than nothing'.

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[hotelvillaexc]

Divine Proust. So many glorious scenes.... This one, and narrator´s grandmother intent of suicide, and his thoughts about it (¨if you avoid somebody to commit suicide, you´re responsible for his life¨), and dozens more. Nobody could surpass his inteligence, culture, literature´s greatness and beauty.

[betapicts]

@hotelvillaexc Hear, Hear

[ModestDanny]

great stuff, im starting to like this guy

[betapicts]

@ModestDanny wow!

[SteauaBucuresti]

@hotelvillaexc

Oooh, O Lord, it´s indeed divine. If only us Romanian could grasp the essence of being beautiful.