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Composer: Ravel, Maurice

Composer: Debussy, Claude

The Life and Work of Marcel Proust

Denham, Mark

Gibbs, Robert

Hossick, Malcolm

Rogers, John

Newby, David

Ebihara, Miko

Elysium Ensemble

Television Director: Hossick, Malcolm

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Cello: Newby, David

Narrator: Hossick, Malcolm

Piano: Ebihara, Miko

Viola: Rogers, John

Violin: Denham, Mark

Violin: Gibbs, Robert

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Year of Production: 2020

Playing Time: 00:32:32

Catalogue Number: L7901DVD

UPC: 709629279018

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Proust wrote a remarkable and very long novel called La Recheche de Temps Perdue, translated usually as Remembrance of Things Past. It's size and reputaiton for density and incomprehensibility mean that not many folk take it on. This is a great pity as once you have started reading it is hard not to be drawn into Proust's world. This is because you will find yourself there in it's huge cast of sensitively drawn characters. The film explores how he did it and is followed by an overview of his work. Proust was born the son of a wealthy Parisian doctor and had an easy entry into the higher echelons of French society. His knowledge of this world was the background to the astonishing series of novels called A La Recherche du Temps Perdu (Remembrance of Things Past). He did not have an early success but by the end of his life it was recognized that his work - sensitive, searching, amusing and amazingly perceptive about how humans work - was in a class of its own. The program traces his unusual life and ends with an overview of his works.