Reading and commentary from the last part of Combray, and a Summary.

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The hidden memories - and the famous scene of the Madalaine cake that opens the Past for Marcel.

This is the final episode from the "Overture" of In Search of Lost Time, future episodes from "Combray" will be available here!

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A pivotal moment in little Marcel's self understanding as a little boy, and his own nervous nature.

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Welcome back! After a super nice message from one of our listeners this week, we're aiming to make more episodes on this podcast a bit later this autumn - after we've finished a current project about Dante's Comedy and a Journey through Paradise!

More about the Dante project is here:

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We are now into the more elaborate parts of Proust's descriptions of early life and people and events in minute detail. Main topics are social class in the aristocratic France of the late 18 hundreds, his family members and their views on people and vanity, and the young boy's very strong attachment to his mother and the fear of missing the good night kiss when his parents have visitors.

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How a person is constructed in the minds of others, and how time and life could be seen as a succession of stages like little galleries of experiences and visual memories.

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