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Living and Dying with Marcel Proust

by Christopher Prendergast

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Start the Week, BBC Radio 4 · January 10, 2022

Finding consolation and community in reading

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The result of a lifetime's reading of Proust's masterpiece, serving as a guide for readers embarking on the colossal work, highlighting the author's many obsessions from insomnia and food to memory, humour and colour.

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