Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time Volume 6: FINDING TIME AGAIN (for second-time readers)

“Every reader finds himself. The writer’s work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it possible for the reader to discern what, without this book, he would perhaps never have seen in himself.”

Marcel Proust

With this final volume of In Search of Lost Time we reach the end of the journey for the group of second-time readers that has been studying Proust for the past two years, and I complete my eighth tour through this mountain of modernism. Each visit reveals new nuggets and gasping moments.

If you are interested in reading Proust from the beginning, please watch our website for the next Proust cycle that will commence early in 2027 and make sure you are signed up for our newsletter in which we announce new studies.

Here is how one Salonista describes the pleasure and work of reading Proust: ”This is a velvet jewel of a book that demands the attention of a lover full of enchantment  and obsession, we need not get impatient as all good lovers perfect their art in taking their time.”

Reading Proust teaches the reader to observe how the world is experienced, to be aware that although humans are tempted to give greater weight to the perceptual universe, it is the entwining of memory, idealised experience (dreams) and relationships with what our senses perceive that moulds our consciousness.

JOINING DETAILS:

• Facilitated by Toby Brothers
• Mondays 3.30-5.30 pm (UK)
• Eleven meeting virtual study (on Zoom) from 9 March – 15 June 2026 (N.B. no meetings on 13 April, 4 May, 11 May and 8 June 2026)
• Recommended edition: Penguin Classics Finding Time Again (Patterson/Prendergast) ISBN: 9780141180366 (the Vintage Classics edition: Time Regained ISBN: 978009936271 5  is also acceptable)
• £330 for 11 meetings, includes background materials, literary criticism, opening notes and discussion notes.