Events

Proust et La Musique

January 22, 2012

Works by Beethoven, Wagner, Franck, Faure, Debussy, Hahn and Delafosse will be featured in this
combination lecture- concert, led by pianist Christophe Maynard., with baritone Jacaques-Francois L'Oiseleur Des Longchamps
and violinist Eun-Bi Gang.  In the ornate central meeting room
of the former City Hall at Rueil-Malmaison (RER-A).  Sunday, 16 h.  Reservations advised:
01.47.32.66.50 or info@shrm.asso.fr

The Universality of Marcel Proust

July 12, 2011

Radio Proust executive director and host Larry Bensky will be speaking (in French) at a Proust-oriented music and literature festival in St. Riquier, France . The festival is located near Amiens in the Picardy/Somme region. Full festival details, and information about Bensky’s appearance visit the link below.
Website: http://www.festival-de-saint-riquier.fr/spectacle,larry-bensky,7.html

Proust and His World

January 25–March 1, 2011

Proustophile Larry Bensky, who runs this web site, will be teaching his "Proust and His World" class again, starting January 25. It's a six-week survey of French music, art,history, and of course literature, open to all, via the Osher Lifetime Learning Center at UC Berkeley. For details, and enrollment information, click the link below.
Website: http://www.olli.berkeley.edu/

New Proust Course Online

Taught by Distinguished Scholar and Proust Biographer William C. Carter.

Website: http://proust-ink.com/page73.htm

Proust in Paris, Illiers-Combray, and Cabourg (Balbec)

May 24–30, 2010

May 24–30 2010
Note: Leave your home city May 23rd. We recommend you arrive in Paris a day or two before the tour to enjoy your favorite Paris activities.

A literary dream trip for avid Proust fans or for the Proust neophyte eager to explore the Proust mystique. There is nothing quite like being able to visit the many sites of Proust’s masterpiece In Search of Lost Time. Your trip will forever connect you to the novel.

Highlights:

• Paris:  Proust’s Louvre, The Ritz, the Dreyfus affair, Proust’s gravesite.
• Illiers-Combray:  "Tante Leonie's House", the church, "the Meseglise Way", madeleines
• Balbec:  The Grand Hotel, the beach, the little train station at Dives, and more

Our tour leader is Harold Augenbraum, Executive Director of the National Book Foundation, former Director of The Mercantile Library in New York, founder of the Proust Society of America, and editor of forthcoming "The Collected Poems of Marcel Proust" from Penguin Classics.

For the first time we will offer a 4-day Venice extension to explore Proust’s fascination with Venice, Ruskin, and its painters (including Carpaccio).  See Proust or Venice.

Cost
$3500 (USD) per person (with the euro at 1.41 as of January 2009).  Price includes 6 nights hotel room (single occupancy breakfast included), all activities as outlined in itinerary, 4 primary meals (2 are lunches—Laperouse in Paris and Le Florent in Illiers-Combray), transportation by private bus as indicated. In Paris, we will also take taxis, 4 people to a cab, shared cost.  Price does not include additional lunches, 3 dinners, alcoholic beverages, wine, coffee stops, transfers to and from airport, or airfare to and from your home.

Website: http://www.poshnosh.com/tbtb/paris-proust.html

Proust's Paris . . . and Beyond

Summer 2010

Website: http://www.poshnosh.com/tbtb/paris-proust.html

The Future of Criticism: A Conference in Honor of Roger Shattuck

Held at The Center for Fiction
17 East 47th Street, New York, NY
Saturday, April 17, 2010

The critic and scholar Roger Shattuck believed in writing for the reader, in order to enrich the experience of reading. This conference honors Shattuck's role as critic to the people while also exploring the directions that criticism may take in the next ten years. At the conference, the first two winners of the new Roger Shattuck Prize in Criticism will be announced.

Website: http://centerforfiction.org/shattuck/