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Marcel Proust C ASSETTE I NFORMATION Cassette 1, Side 1. (40:48) Cassette 1, Side 2 . (38:59) Reynaldo Hahn sings Offrande, 1909 Military service (cont) The Life and Three fictional creative artists: a composer, The first short story a painter and an author Influential drawing rooms Proust’s episodes of ‘involuntary memory’ Comte Robert de Montesquiou-Fezensac were a means of digging into sensation in Reynaldo Hahn Work of order to reach the heart of it 3 CASSETTES Lucien Daudet The Franco-Prussian War The Dreyfus Case NON-FICTION The birth of Marcel Proust, January 10, 1871 Total Time on Cassette 1: 1:19:47 BIOGRAPHY The goodnight kiss UNABRIDGED Marcel Proust Military service AUDIO-ORIGINAL Cassette 2, Side 1. (41:17) Cassette 2, Side 2. (38:15) W RITTEN & READ BY N EVILLE J ASON The Dreyfus Case (cont) Time Lost, Time Regained; Pleasures and Days involuntary memory (cont) Jean Santeuil, the early, Alfred Agostinelli autobiographical novel Sergei Diaghilev, Jean Cocteau, Anna de Noailles Pablo Picasso and friends Marcel Proust and John Ruskin Looking for a publisher More work: Ruskin’s The Bible of Amiens The manuscript is delivered to Grasset The move to 102 Boulevard Haussmann Proust and Agostinelli Time Lost, Time Regained; involuntary memory Total Time on Cassette 2: 1:19:32 Cassette 3, Side 1. (41:28) Cassette 3, Side 2 . ((38:17) Proust and Agostinelli (cont) Within a Budding Grove published in 1919, The publication of Swann’s Way winning the Prix Goncourt, and then The Guermantes Way The First World War begins, August 3, 1914 The meeting with James Joyce The year of 1915 Proust and Music The poet Paul Morand The Guermantes Way Part 2 and Sodom and Proust begins to go out again into the world Gomorrah published 1921 Proust changes publishers - and joins Colette remembers Nouvelle Revue Française - the NRF People and characters The Armistice - a meeting with Harold Nicholson Worsening health and death and a move to Rue Hamelin Total Time on Cassette 3: 1:19:45 Total Time on Cassettes 1-3: 3:59:04 To receive a complete catalog of our titles now available on both Cassette and CD, please call: 1(877) NAXOS CD • Fax: (888) 771-9520 www.naxos.com 416 Mary Lindsay Polk Drive, Suite 509 • Franklin, Tennessee 37067 Phone: (615) 771-9393 • Fax: (615) 771-6747 In Canada please call: (416) 491-2600 THE LIFE AND WORK OF MARCEL PROUST • ISBN 9-62634-752-X / NA325214 © 2002 NAXOS AudioBooks Ltd. P 2002 NAXOS AudioBooks Ltd. Made in the U.S.A. DIGITAL CLASSIC LITERATURE WITH CLASSICAL MUSIC ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. UNAUTHORIZED PUBLIC PERFORMANCE, BROADCASTING AND COPYING OF THIS CASSETTE PROHIBITED. NA325214 with a sign in the window announcing proudly that ‘This is where Aunt Léonie The Life and Work bought her madeleines’. of Marcel Proust It only occurs to me as I buy a packet of the scallop-shaped cakes, that Aunt Léonie is a creature of fiction. Never mind, Aunt Élisabeth might well W RITTEN & READ BY N EVILLE J ASON have patronized the establishment, or one very like it. Up the hill there is a real B IT PARTS R EAD BY E LAINE C LAXTON, house called Tansonville, the name of the house occupied by Charles Swann, G ORDON G RIFFIN & DENYS H AWTHORNE and later by his daughter Gilberte and her husband Robert de Saint-Loup, and Few authors have attracted as many biographers as further on there is a real village called Méréglise, a name almost identical to Marcel Proust. And yet, to the best of my knowledge, the fictional Méséglise. The Life and Work of Marcel Proust has the distinction Water lilies are still reflected in the glassy surface of the river Loir, which in of being the first audio biography. the book bears the more poetic name of the Vivonne, and beyond the stream To avoid any confusion, it may be wise to point out lays the Pré Catalan, the enchanting park created by Proust’s horticultural- that Proust’s great work, À La Recherche du Temps minded Uncle Jules. Marcel Proust at Illiers Perdu, was originally translated into English by Charles Each spring a group of members of The Society of Friends of Marcel Proust K. Scott-Moncrieff and published in 1922 under the title, gather in Illiers on a Proustian pilgrimage, following a tradition originated by Remembrance of Things Past. Marcel Proust’s brother Robert who, during the 1930s, started bringing friends It has subsequently been re-translated by Terence Kilmartin and appeared in here every May to enjoy the hawthorn blossom. I join them as they climb the 1981 as In Search of Lost Time. Naxos AudioBooks’ abridged version has been gently sloping hawthorn path, which borders the Pré Catalan. In the book this prepared from the Scott-Moncrieff text (except for Time Regained, which was is the route to Charles Swann’s estate – Swann’s Way. From time to time the translated by myself), and references to the work in this audio biography use little group comes to a halt while someone reads out loud an excerpt from the the original English title. text, which describes the scene before us. My own contact with Proust began when, as a seventeen-year-old schoolboy, My own pilgrimage has an additional aim – to record a radio program on I first read Swann’s Way. I could not have guessed then that many years into Proust for the BBC, and so having said goodbye to my fellow pilgrims, I travel the future Proust would take over my life for a period of some six years, during on to Cabourg, a seaside resort on the Normandy coast, and the original of the which time I would abridge, adapt for audio and record his three-thousand-page fictional Balbec. Here the Grand Hotel, in its Edwardian splendor, has remained masterpiece, Remembrance of Things Past. much as Proust describes it as the setting for his summer holidays with his grandmother. The great glass windows of the restaurant look out over the Having once embarked on this daunting but exciting task, it occurred to me promenade to the beach below, and with a little imagination that group of that although the people on whom Proust based his characters were no longer budding young girls in bikinis is transformed into the little band of jeunes living, the places he wrote about were still there, and so I set off to see them. filles en fleurs outlined against the sea. I was delighted to discover that Illiers, where Marcel Proust spent his holidays On to Paris, and 102 Boulevard Haussmann – Proust’s home for many as a child, and which figures in the book as Combray, is now marked on the years, and where he wrote so much of Remembrance of Things Past. The building maps as Illiers-Combray, in official recognition of the reason for this sleepy is still owned by the same bank that purchased it from Proust’s aunt, when her village’s wider fame. In a narrow street just off the market square is the inconsiderate decision to sell it forced him to move. His bedroom is still there, house in which Proust’s father, Adrien Proust, was born, and further along but unfurnished, and to see the room as it was, I visit the Musée Carnavalet, is the house of his Aunt Élisabeth, now a Proust museum, where Élisabeth’s where his bed, chaise-lounge and other effects are displayed in a reconstruction fictional counterpart, the bedridden Aunt Léonie, watched the world from her of the famous cork-lined room. bedroom window. Around the corner from the house is a little boulangerie A walk to the gardens of the Champs Élysées brings me to an area with a A PROUST C HRONOLOGY sign, which tells me I am in the Allée Marcel Proust. Children chase each other 1871 July 10: Marcel Proust born –perhaps playing the modern equivalent of ‘prisoner’s base’, the game played 1873 May 24: Robert Proust born by Gilberte and her friends. This is where the real Marcel played as a child with 1878-1886 Holiday visits to Illiers (now Illiers-Combray) the real Marie de Benardaky, with whom he fell in love, just as the fictional 1880 Spring: Marcel’s first attack of asthma Marcel falls in love with the fictional Gilberte Swann. 1882-1888 Attends the Lycée Condorcet In the real world, different people occupy the same spaces now. Time has 1888 Contributes to La Revue Lilas and La Revue Verte moved on, but places remain, and we have the privilege of entering, not only 1889-1890 Military service at Orléans the imaginary world Proust created, but that portion of the real world that had a part in its creation. His presence in the places he passed through left behind 1890 January 3: Death of maternal grandmother, Adèle Weil a trace of magic, and we see them differently, because we see them through August: Holiday at Cabourg his eyes. One day, those places too will have crumbled into dust, as will we November: Enrolls as a student in the Faculty of Law and at the ourselves, and the space we now consider ours will be occupied by others. École Libre des Sciences Politiques But as long as civilization remains, those who come after will be able to share 1890 November - Proust’s vision and enter into his world. Proust was aware that art is the only 1891 September: Contributes to Le Mensuel true reality, and that through his creations the artist continues to live after his 1892 March: First edition of Le Banquet death, beyond space and beyond time.
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