Podcast on Proust
The Irish Proust conversations continue.
In this latest episode presented by Dr Patrick Geoghegan of Trinity College Dublin, Professor Patrick O鈥橠onovan, Emeritus Professor of French at 晚上福利在线观看 Cork joins other scholars to discuss the life and work of Marcel Proust and explore his connections with Ireland.
This relates to published by Bloomsbury in January of this year. The volume consists of eleven chapters charting Irish themes in Proust鈥檚 work and his widespread influence on Irish writers from Bowen to Behan. It originated in a held in the Museum of Literature Ireland in the centenary of Proust鈥檚 death, and. contributes a chapter on Proust鈥檚 playful exploration of the ancient Celtic belief in metempsychosis, or the transmigration of souls.
The volume, which was in January in the Irish Embassy in Paris, is edited by , Research Ireland Postdoctoral Fellow, and , 1776 Professor of French, both of them in Trinity College Dublin.
Frank Wynne the volume in the Irish Times, describing it as 鈥渁 "livre de chevet" 鈥� a book to keep on a nightstand, to be read slowly and thoughtfully as a strange but enthralling exploration of the unexpected origins of modernism in Ireland鈥�.
Max McGuinness and Patrick O鈥橠onovan joined two further contributors to the volume, and , in a wide-ranging exploration of Proust and his unsuspected relationship with Ireland on Patrick Geoghegan鈥檚 .
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