Episode 9: Moonlight Sonatas

Join your literary tour guide and host Dr James Holden for Episode 9 of Proustian Paths, in which we continue our gentle walk through Marcel Proust's masterpiece of French literature - A la recherche du temps perdu (In Search of Lost Time). Today, we travel further through Swann’s Way. We discover how Charles Swann is excluded from the Verdurin salon. Love and jealousy abound as he storms home through the Paris night alone with the promise of other love affairs and piano music hanging in the evening air. In this episode we will discuss: Swann’s exclusion from the Verdurin salon A performance of Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata for piano, played in the dark The mutability of social truths Proustian Paths is the perfect podcast for both first time readers of Proust's novel and dedicated Proustians alike. It is ‘a brilliant invitation into the world of Proust and the insights his work offers’.

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Episode 9: Moonlight Sonatas is an episode from Proustian Paths by James Holden.

This episode is 14:06 long.

This episode was published on Sep 7, 2025.

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