The Chris Hedges Report: Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time with Justin E.H. Smith

1. excellent but low sound sabotaged on my iPhone here on YT😿strain2hear…vital talk by Chris & Prof Justin E H Smith ..Proust speaks 2my deep self ..ThankU🙏♥️🕊

2. 👍🤔

3. Get him outta here he’s delusional.

4. Any writer who takes seven volumes to tell a story needs to learn the importance of brevity.

5. What is it about the late 19th century and early 20th century that produced the greatest wordsmiths of English literature? Joseph Conrad, H G Wells, Arthur Conan Doyle, G K Chesterton, and on and on and on. It's really remarkable. I would love to hear from Chris Hedges and others for an analysis.
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6. Thank you, Chris Hedges, for having philosopher Justin E.H. Smith on with this discussion of Marcel Proust, novel of "In Search of Lost Time."
   It is one of my favorite novels, among many others.
   I missed this conversation, since I am not adequately advanced in technology of cell phones or computers.
   An exhilarating conversation between the both of you , plus I love to keep learning.
   With the deepest appreciation and respect for your wisdom and knowledge, I graciously thank you both.

7. I went to Combray before reading the book – stayed in the hotel next to the church where a wedding was taking place. The landlady, looking out of the window, siad 'Me, I believe in divorce!'

8. Wow, didn't expect this show from you! Now you are my favorite journalist hands down.

9. I'll never read Proust now, at age 75 I don't have the necessary reading commitment to put aside the time and effort to succeed. Indeed, I have no burning desire to do so. I've read great literature when I was younger, perhaps that the best time? I am happy that Chris and Justin Smith get so much pleasure from their discussion, but it's well, well above my head. But then if I were to explain things about my previous profession, as a doctor of medicine, much of that would be above their heads. Each to his own. Unlike much medical knowledge though, I imagine Proust would be available to any interested and intelligent party.

10. Grazie Chris /it’s incredible to have ur voice when most choose to sell out to the capitalists & boy do we need more like urself

11. 🙌 ρɾσɱσʂɱ

12. Proust's concern with time encapsulates not only the past and the memories we have of it but also the present in all its impressionistic detail and the future with the narrator's dreams of becoming a writer and even his suspicions of what Albertine might be up to at any one time.

13. Very interesting!

14. For what do I weep? -: all things lost to an ocean of time…

15. must be difficult to cram a discussion of a 7 volume work into a half hour but you guys did a great job with the time. for the hundredth time, thankyou Chris Hedges for the depth of your interests in literature, philosophy, and the giants of literary history.

16. He doesn't fear grieving he fears the day he no longer grieves because the self that was once in love with those we lost no longer exists …letting go of self and letting go of the other.

17. Who the hell writes these ungrammatical titles?

18. Now you're talking 'bout terror. Oh., You mean the 3 months in summer of 2020 in which the BLM mob freely burned public buildings in Portland and the "Atifa" freaks who set up an Outlaw Control Zone in which they ruled like the Parisian Mobs of 1789-93. That 's who the singer is referring to in the introductory music and lyrics.

19. Racism … especially anti-semitism… people who are classified as “white” and who can “ pass” = Proust is a proud racist !

20. There's a question that I didn't see answered: Why should I care at all about Marcel Proust? Talking about him seems to be one of those upper class follies.

21. I have no clue. Can’t understand the speaker. What a waste!

22. Historian Shelby Foote would take a break from writing every few years to re-read Proust.

23. you lack eyes of your own that you need a novellist to show you reality???

    literature as TRUTH???

    these writers are story tellers seeking to puff their own reputations or story readers needing to justify their own effort in reading what amount to nothing but stories.

    after all what value the insights of novellists even if occasionally true. no one will be improved by any of them, for the idea of the redemptive or transformative power of art is utter hogwash

    if authors are going to unsparingly dissect the vileness of the human condition let them also dissect the futily of their own enterprise

24. What I loved while reading Proust (and still do) was the formidable sense of humor. Hilarious scenes and descriptions.

25. Thank you for the show

26. Q@10q

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