Boston Athenaeum members who are already Proust enthusiasts, and those who are aficionados-in-the-making, are invited to join The Proust Reading Group. Meetings generally take place on the last Tuesday afternoon of each month, from 12 to 1:30 pm. This group meets using a hybrid solution. You can attend in person or connect remotely.
In September 2023, we will review The Fugitive and then begin Time Regained. Listed below are the pages in both the Modern Library translation and in the Yale University Press translation. The Yale edition of Time Regained has not yet been published.
The Modern Library Edition for The Fugitive is volume 5 of the series, and Time Regained is volume 6. The text is translated by C. K. Scott Moncrieff and Terence Kilmartin, and revised by D. J. Enright.
The group is led by Proust scholar Dr. Hollie Markland Harder, who is the director of language programs and Associate Professor of French at Brandeis University. Her work on Proust includes articles on Françoise’s cooking (“Proust’s Novel Confections: Françoise’s Cooking and Marcel’s Book,” which appeared in Modern Language Studies) and the function of humor in Proust’s novel (“Proust’s Human Comedy,” published in The Cambridge Companion to Proust).
Participants must sign up in advance for the year. There is a fee of $100 per year. Anyone interested should contact the Circulation Desk at (617) 227-0270 x279 or email harder@brandeis.edu.
What We’re Reading
- Jan. 30: The Fugitive ML pp. 773–822, YUP pp. 621–660 (read up to “A few months earlier, this knowledge …”)
- Feb. 27: The Fugitive ML pp. 822–873, YUP pp. 660–700 (read up to “The night passed. In the morning I gave the telegram back to the hotel porter …”)
- Mar. 26: The Fugitive ML pp. 873–921 YUP pp. 700–738
- Apr. 16 (N.B. this is the Third Tuesday): The Fugitive ML pp. 921–936, YUP pp. 738–757; Time Regained ML pp. 1–46
- May 21 (N.B. this is the Third Tuesday): Time Regained ML pp. 46–93