Proust Delights at the Living Literature series May 9 & 11th

As one group is in the thick of Sodom & Gomorrah, another group finished this two-year project last year, what better than to celebrate with a Proustian dinner & discussion celebrating the realm of the senses? If you have not read Proust or have dipped but not stayed, you might find this presentation intrigues you towards a full reading…

Living Literature 2017

Living Literature 2017
Date
11 May 2017, 18:30 to 11 May 2017, 22:00
Venue
Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU
Description

This year, Living Literature invites you to explore Marcel Proust’s ‘In Search of Lost Time‘.

Join Sarah Churchwell (School of Advanced Study, University of London), Erika Fulop (University of Lancaster) and Anna-Louise Milne (University of London Institute in Paris) for an immersive encounter with Proust’s classic novel ‘In Search of Lost Time’.

​Learn about how taste, smell and memory are linked through sensory experiments with the Centre for the Study of the Senses, immerse yourself in a labyrinthine universe where erotic desire and scientific method combine. Surrounded by the scents, fashions and music of the belle époque, you can feast on food inspired by ‘In Search of Lost Time’ and sip linden tea cocktails while learning about Paris at the turn of the century.

Listen to readings and pop-up talks, learn about love, jealousy, queer identity, art, society and politics during the French fin de siècle, view our literary exhibition and enjoy a magic lantern show. There will also be an intimate performance of Proust’s fictional Vinteuil sonata, as well as other classical composers from the era. Plus a few surprises on the night…

Standard – £40 | Concession – £20

For more info & registration: http://www.sas.ac.uk/events/event/7725

And–if you desire more Proust pondering, there is a lecture on May 9th also hosted by SAS on Proust & his contemporary relevance:

This year’s Malcolm Bowie Memorial Lecture ‘Rereading Proust in 2017‘, has partnered with the School of Advanced Study’s Living Literature series to present a lecture given by Professor Antoine Compagnon (Columbia/ Collège de France).

Professor Compagnon is perhaps the most famous professor in French studies in the world, and arguably the leading expert on modern and contemporary French literature. In his lecture, Professor Compagnon will reveal how Marcel Proust’s writings are as alive and relevant today as they were when first published.

“Since 1913, several generations of readers of Proust have ensued: the sect of Proustians who discovered his novel in the Gallimard’s “Collection Blanche”; the enlightened who read it in the first “Pléiade” of 1954, alongside Jean Santeuil and Contre Sainte-Beuve; the baby boomers who were offered the “Livre de Poche” in the 1960s, with Deleuze, Barthes or Genette as their guides. Translations proliferated. And now? Is the Recherche still read? Has it reached the limit of its appeal? Proust has become a sign of distinction, and all reading is rereading, as Nabokov famously said.” (Antoine Compagnon)

Details: http://www.sas.ac.uk/events/event/8001

 

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