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Podcast: The Cosmic Library
Episode: 7.4 In Search of Lost Time: Art vs. Jealousy
Description: The Prisonerāthe fifth volume ofĀ In Search of Lost Timeāspirals through the vortex of the narratorās jealousy concerning Albertine. Something of that vortex churns on into The Fugitiveāthe sixth volumeāand then the focus moves toward grief. But across the entire novel, there are intimations of other ways to be, of other possibilities for the narrator. Hannah Freed-Thall describes, for example, a beach scene in the second volume, where the narrator is āin love with the whole landscape, and the sea, and the beach, and the air.āĀ Intense experiences of art also jolt the narrator int...