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.
Proust Society
of America
Proust: Temps Perdu