Athenaeum members who are already Proust enthusiasts and those who are aficionados-in-the-making are invited to join a discussion group devoted to the author and his work.

The Group meets on the last Tuesday of the month from 12:00 noon until 1:30 pm. The Group will read approximately one hundred pages per month.

The discussion group will be led by Proust scholar Dr. Hollie Markland Harder, who is the director of language programs (in French, Spanish, and Italian), and a lecturer in the humanities at Brandeis University. Her work on Proust includes articles on Françoise’s cooking (“Proust’s Novel Confections: Françoise’s Cooking and Marcel’s Book,” which appeared in Modern Language Studies) and the function of humor in Proust’s novel (“Proust’s Human Comedy,” published in The Cambridge Companion to Proust).

Participants must sign up in advance for the complete semester. There will be a fee of $40—which also includes membership in the Boston Chapter of the Proust Society of America. The group is limited to 20 participants. Anyone interested should contact Monica Higgins at 617.720.7667.

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Proust: Temps Perdu