Join your hosts for a bonus episode discussing the lasting influence of Proust on today’s literary culture. We discuss memoirs, translations, and the transformative power of Proust, particularly two books that profoundly influenced our reading: Laure Murat’s Proust, roman familial (forthcoming in English as Proust: A Family Romance) and Maria Stepanova’s In Memory of Memory. Plus, we reveal what we appreciate in friends in our final round of the Proust Questionnaire.

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• Proust Questionnaire
• In Search of Lost Time (trans. Moncrieff, Kilmartin, and Mayor; rev. Enright)
• Logo image
• Laure Murat, Proust, roman familial
• Céleste Albaret, Monsieur Proust
• Caroline Weber, Proust’s Duchess
• Lorenza Foschini, Proust’s Overcoat
• Lydia Davis, trans. Swann’s Way
• Natalia Ginzburg, Family Lexicon
• Maria Stepanova, In Memory of Memory (trans. Sasha Dugdale)
• Alain de Botton, How Proust Can Change Your Life
• Stéphane Carlier, Clara Reads Proust
• Deborah Levy, August Blue
• Deborah Levy, Things I Don’t Want to Know
• Sally Rooney, Intermezzo