July 29, 2022—In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower, by Marcel Proust

 The next meeting of Great Books KC will be July 29, 2022.  

We will discuss In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower, Vol. 2 of In Search of Lost Time, by Marcel Proust

Meeting Date & Time:
Date: July 29, 2022
Time: 7:00 pm

 Zoom On-Line Meeting:
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Description of Book:
In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower, also translated as Within a Budding Grove (1919) was scheduled to be published in 1914 but was delayed by the onset of World War I. At the same time, Grasset's firm was closed down when the publisher went into military service. This freed Proust to move to Gallimard, where all of the subsequent volumes were published. Meanwhile, the novel kept growing in length and in conception. When published, the novel was awarded the Prix Goncourt in 1919.