I am proud to have been involved in the monumenal Proust Lu project of Véronique Aubouy, a French film maker who has recruited 1500 people to read Proust's monumental A la Recherche du Temps Perdu to camera in a kind of literary relay.
Véronique allocated me a couple of pages of La Fugitive, sometimes called Albertine Disparue, the sixth of the seven novels that make up the work. Proust is not the simplest French - often very long sentences - and reading it aloud called for fierce concentration. I needed a lie down afterwards.
I'd first read A la Recherche when I was in my twenties, which was some time ago.
By the time it's finished, Proust Lu will probably run for about 180 hours.
The 145 hours completed so far was shown at the Médiathèque de la Ciotat, not far from Marseille, in December. Here's an interview with Véronique Aubouy:
https://www.lapresse.ca/arts/litterature/2021-08-16/proust-en-180-heures.php
No comments:
Post a Comment