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In Search of Lost Time (Dramatized)

By: Marcel Proust
Narrated by: James Wilby,Jonathan Firth,Harriet Walter,Imogen Stubbs,Corin Redgrave
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Publisher's summary

A BBC Radio six-part dramatisation of Marcel Proust's groundbreaking series of novels, tracing the extraordinary story of the author's own life. Starring James Wilby and Jonathan Firth, and with a distinguished cast including Harriet Walter, Imogen Stubbs, and Corin Redgrave, this rich, multi-layered adaptation brings out all the variety and subtlety of Proust's magnificent masterpiece.

Featuring a fictional version of himself - 'Marcel' - and a host of friends, acquaintances, and lovers, In Search of Lost Time is Proust's search for the key to the mysteries of memory, time, and consciousness. As he recalls his childhood days, the sad affair of Charles Swann and Odette de Crecy, his transition to manhood, the tortures of love and the ravages of war, he realises that the simplest of discoveries can lead to astonishing possibilities.

©2009 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd (P)2009 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd

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If you could sum up In Search of Lost Time (Dramatized) in three words, what would they be?

Entertaining, well-performed & enjoyable.

What other book might you compare In Search of Lost Time (Dramatized) to and why?

There is nothing like In search of lost time!

What about the narrators’s performance did you like?

Very well read and he helped to set the scene perfectly.

Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?

no extreme reaction

Any additional comments?

It was a delightful way of getting an overview of the very log story despite the fact that I have listened to a 33 CD version also.

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Absolutely First Class Drama!

Any adaption of literature is not really easy. This drama has reached an excellent height to make this complex novel understandable and compelling. Very sensitive, profound voice of narrator and all outstanding actors. Thanks for BBC and fiction factory produced such beautiful work!

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This audiobook became my permanent companion

Proust made me retrieve moments of my past. Perhaps forgotten or unobserved before. He helped me find key answers of myself.

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Stunning

I now cannot wait to buy each of the books separately and hear all 3000 words.

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A pretentious blur of garbage

I wanted to build my library with some of the "classics" . Thus , I did several searches of the top 50 best books written and this book came up in the top 3 and usually as number one. Ok, why not? So I dove in and started to listen. This has no plot, is filled with so many characters and skips from place to place so many times it is impossible to just listen to. It seems it is the for-runner of the modern soap opera with very explicit sexual references and experiences. I read or listen to hundreds of books a year and I don't get this one at all.

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Mucho más que un buen libro

Dicen que uno no lee un libro, sino que se lee a si mismo en ellos. Afortunado soy de haber tenido el gusto de encontrarme a mí mismo en "En busca del tiempo perdido".

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Amazing - Proust makes his life story so alive

Amazing - Proust makes his life story so alive

a must read for everybody who asks themselves what goes on in other peoples' minds

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A masterpiece

One of those books which leaves you stunned, silent. A book which inspired insight and honesty in self introspection. A book which forced me to face myself and the world in their terrible, wonderful complexity. I wish it were the full book, yet the dramatization has its own poignancy.

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Couldn't handle more than an hour of it.

First "dramatzed" audiobook I've purchased, and just can't stand it. I hear great things about the story in general, and will re-purchase if it becomes available in a non-dramatized form.

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Yes, this is how it is.

A beautiful portrait of time, with some colorful characters and quite a bit of less-than-admirable behavior. Made me want to read the actual books, certainly.

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