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| | | The big ideas which form the intellectual agenda of our age are illuminated by some of the best minds in the world. Melvyn Bragg and three guests investigate the history of ideas and debate their application in modern life. | | | | | LISTEN AGAIN | | | |
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| | | | | "I'm fascinated by the fact that we live in a time when so many people are doing fantastic work, and thinking in areas which it's not remotely possible for me to keep up with & and these people are prepared to talk about it. They're prepared to come on In Our Time and other programmes on Radio 4 and try and talk to the rest of us ..." |
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Marcel Proust’s novel A La Recherche du Temps Perdu, or In Search of Lost Time, has been called the definitive modern novel. His stylistic innovation, sensory exploration and fascination with memory were to influence a whole body of thinkers, from the German intellectuals of the 1930s to the Bloomsbury set, chief among them Virginia Woolf, and innumerable critics and novelists since.
But how did he succeed in creating a 3000 page novel with such an artistic coherence? To what extent did John Ruskin influence Proust? Is his fascination with memory and recall simply a nostalgia for the past? And what impact did he have on the 20th century novel?
Contributors
Jacqueline Rose, Professor of English Literature at Queen Mary, University of London and author of Albertine (Vintage, 2002)
Malcolm Bowie, Master of Christ’s College, Cambridge and author of Proust among the Stars (Fontana Press, 1999)
Dr Robert Fraser, Senior Research Fellow in the Literature Department at the Open University and author of Proust and the Victorians (Palgrave Macmillan, 1994)
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