Date of first publication: 1924
This project is now complete! All audio files can be found on our catalog page: http://legamus.eu/blog/?p=72
Text source: http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks03/0300401.txt (please only read from this text!)In Search of Lost Time or Remembrance of Things Past (French: À la recherche du temps perdu) is a semi-autobiographical novel in seven volumes by Marcel Proust. His most prominent work, it is popularly known for its extended length and the notion of involuntary memory, the most famous example being the "episode of the madeleine."
Begun in 1909, finished just before his death in 1922, and published in France between 1913 and 1927 "... [the] novel has had a pervasive influence on twentieth-century literature, whether because writers have sought to emulate it, or attempted to parody and discredit some of its traits. In it, Proust explores the themes of time, space, and memory, but the novel is above all a condensation of innumerable literary, structural, stylistic, and thematic possibilities."
"Within a Budding Grove" (A l'ombre des jeunes filles en fleur", literally "In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower"), the second volume in the sequence, won the Prix Goncourt in 1919. In it, the narrator meets several characters who are to prove very important in his life and in the novel - the aristocrat Robert de Saint-Loup, an eccentric snob called the Baron de Charlus and a group of girls including a certain Albertine Simonet. (Summary by Wikipedia and Andrew Coleman)
Prooflistener: Martin Geeson
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Intro, Outro and Disclaimer for CC0:
At the beginning of each file please say:
[Section number] of Within a Budding Grove by Marcel Proust, translated by CK Scott-Moncrieff. This Legamus recording may be distributed and adapted freely for any non-commercial purpose, as long as Legamus is credited.
(if you wish: Read by [your name]**)
[Chapter title]
At the end of each section please say:
End of [Section number]
(if you wish: Read by [your name]** )
At the end of the project please say additionally:
"End of Within a Budding Grove by Marcel Proust. For more information or to volunteer, please visit Legamus.eu"
**Please add your name at the beginning or the end, not in both places.
About recording:
Set your recording software to:
Channels: 1 (Mono)
Bit Rate: 128 kbps
Sample Rate: 44.1 kHz
Please leave 5 seconds silence at the end of your recording, or 10 seconds for files longer than 30 minutes!
Save files as:
128 kbps MP3
buddinggrove_##_proust.mp3 (all lower-case) where ## is your section number. (e.g. titleinoneword_01_authorsurname.mp3)
Add the following tags to your .mp3 file (how you do this depends on which software you use – if you are unsure about ID3 tags, please ask). Please mind upper and lower case!
Title: ## - [Section title]
Artist: Marcel Proust
Album: Budding Grove
Genre: Speech
Track Number: Section Number (if sections are numbered from 1, section +1, if sections are numbered from 0)
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Date of first publication: 1924
Number of sections the project will have: (please note that the sections should be less than 70 minutes long): 40 (estimate)
Does the project have a preface that will be recorded as a separate section? N
Category (Fiction, non-fiction, poetry, drama): Fiction
Tags that describe the book (like: place, time, historical people/events, mystery, fairy tale, horror/ghost story, philosophy, ... : French literature, Original title was À l'ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs (In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower), Second volume of À la Recherche du temps perdu (Remembrance of Things Past or In Search of Lost Time)
Summary for the catalog (from Wikipedia or written by you): In Search of Lost Time or Remembrance of Things Past (French: À la recherche du temps perdu) is a semi-autobiographical novel in seven volumes by Marcel Proust. His most prominent work, it is popularly known for its extended length and the notion of involuntary memory, the most famous example being the "episode of the madeleine."
Begun in 1909, finished just before his death in 1922, and published in France between 1913 and 1927 "... [the] novel has had a pervasive influence on twentieth-century literature, whether because writers have sought to emulate it, or attempted to parody and discredit some of its traits. In it, Proust explores the themes of time, space, and memory, but the novel is above all a condensation of innumerable literary, structural, stylistic, and thematic possibilities." [Wikipedia]
Licence: Attribution Non-Commercial CC BY-NC
Although I'm an experienced recorder for Librivox (as English Andrew) this is my first Solo project so I hope I'm doing this right!