INSTITUTE OF MODERN LANGUAGES RESEARCH
School of Advanced Study • University of London
‘Rereading Proust in 2017’
Antoine Compagnon
This year, the Malcolm Bowie Memorial Lecture has partnered with the School of Advanced Study’s Living Literature series to present a lecture by Professor Antoine Compagnon of the Collège de France and Columbia University
Date: Tuesday 9 May 2017
Time: 18:00-20:00
Venue: The Chancellor's Hall, First Floor, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU
“Since 1913, several generations of readers of Proust have ensued: the sect of Proustians who discovered his novel in the Gallimard's "Collection Blanche"; the enlightened who read it in the first "Pléiade" of 1954, alongside Jean Santeuil and Contre Sainte-Beuve; the baby boomers who were offered the "Livre de Poche” in the 1960s, with Deleuze, Barthes or Genette as their guides. Translations proliferated. And now? Is the Recherche still read? Has it reached the limit of its appeal? Proust has become a sign of distinction, and all reading is rereading, as Nabokov famously said.” (Antoine Compagnon)
The lecture will be followed by a drinks reception. Admission to the event is free, all welcome. Please register in advance: http://www.sas.ac.uk/events/event/8001
Sponsored by the Cassal Trust