A la recherche du temps perdu, tome 3 - Le Cote de Guermantes 1

Based on true events, this is actually a very boring movie - but so is reading [in French (if you lack the language)] - and what else can you do in Hong Kong with everyone away during the rainy season?

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[TiborHuber]

Thanks Ahmed, so glad to learn you liked it - ever since, I didn't manage to get myself as much immersed again, so this became a reminder even to myself of what I miss in life (we actually opened a bookstore in the meantime, but there, reading's main concern is to find out what people like & my private stuff can not in fairness be suggested where you may succeed to kindly add Chris Cleave or David Nicholls to a fair consisting of "Twilight" & "The Girl that always took 600 pages". All the Best!

[nefastodelirio]

C'EST DU COTE' DE CHEZ SWANN !!!!!! NON PAS LE COTE' GUERMANTES !!!!!

[TiborHuber]

This complexity is, I think, the reason why this video works so well while not being particularly fascinating to watch.

But I am glad for you to have made this discovery as this is what Proust, more than any other author I know, might be about: the discovery and placement of fragments, giving form and meaning to the seemingly fatal randomness of life. Continue. Well done.

[TiborHuber]

This bracketing structure is repeated in the inclusion, early, of a photograph of the author when he wrote the work, and, shortly before the end, of his tomb, as he had died before the publication of the final three volumes. To give it yet some additional levels, all this is interwoven with images of physical writing & kept as sort of a visual diary of the reading process in a season of heavy rain.

[TiborHuber]

(see 1:44, 3:40, 3:59, 4:46, 5:15) & it embeds the central episodes of that microcosmical segment (Dreyfus, Donciere, Salon Villeparisis & Maladie de Grand'mère) into the macrocosm of the entire cycle by starting with the first sentence, & a bit later including the most central motive (both correctly spotted by you as from "Du côté de chez Swann"!!!!!!!) & by ending with the final sentence of "Le Temps retrouvé" (as of 5:45).

[TiborHuber]

Well, Doctor Nefarious, since by a stupid default of YouTube I can only answer 500 characters each time, I will have to cut this in 4 parts but I think this little trouvaille doesn't quite deserve that many exclamation marks.

The video tries to render the experience of the entire Recherche (which is inserted during the Prelude to the actual reading at 0:30), from the perspective of its third volume. The reading action is quite indisputably of the first part of "Le Côté de Guermantes"

[giloubreizh]

Sublime!!! (il falait oser!)

[ahmedmaazouzi]

Dude, I love this video and it reminds me of my great passion with literature, especially the French literature,