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Proust Online–A Self-Paced Course

Proust Online-A Self-Paced course offers readers of Proust 30 one-hour multimedia lectures during which William C. Carter covers in its entirety Proust's masterpiece In Search of Lost Time, formerly known as Remembrance of Things Past. Subscribers can proceed at their own pace and have unlimited access to the lectures, live monthly webcams, and all supplementary material.

The "file cabinet" provides the reading assignments and additional information on Proust's characters and themes, life and times, and other related topics. The reading assignments are keyed to the English-language editions of the novel as well as to the French Pléiade edition of À la recherche du temps perdu.

Join our interesting group of passionate readers of Proust and enjoy all the benefits of lifetime membership. With the centennial of In Search of Lost Time approaching (November 2013), now is the perfect time to read or re-read this great work.

Register now for only $150 for all 30 lectures and many additional resources.

To pay by check please send your payment of $150.00 to:

William C. Carter
306 Morningside Cir
Birmingham, AL 35213

Testimonials

  • The course is WONDERFUL. You simply cannot appreciate how it has enhanced my reading. I felt fairly alone at time, en face de Proust. This course has opened up a world which I sensed, but which I can now piece together.

    Barbara Pillsbury
  • Your lectures have widened my understanding and given me new things to think about. My sincere thanks to you and to Nic. This course has obviously been a labor of love for you two as the course fee is in no way proportionate to the service provided by you.

    Cathy Lamb
  • I am enjoying your fascinating first lecture.

    Peter Albert McKay
  • Thank you, Bill. I am just getting started, have always wanted to read Proust but felt I needed a structured environment. What a great thing for you to do.

    Denise Middlebrooks
  • Enjoying the course—well done. This was my second reading of Proust and to be able to do this within the context of a course gave me so much more than reading it alone. This was fun!

    Deborah Hendel
  • Just wanted to let you know I haven't dropped the course, but am poking along at my own leisurely pace and loving it as much as ever. I'm through Lecture 8 and still enjoying it all immensely. I want to thank you so much for your prompt and detailed responses to the questions I've asked. This ability to tap into the mind of one of the world's foremost Proust scholars with any oddball question is one of the greatest aspects of this course to me.

    Martha Schardt
  • Just writing to tell you that I am loving doing the course—and finally reading Proust properly, something I have wanted to do since living in Paris many years ago. Your guidance, intimate knowledge, and passion for Proust are inspirational.

    Brita Lomba
  • In William Carter's lectures I hear all the Proustian virtues of profound perceptions, phrased in elegant and modest lines, and spoken softly in the frank and intimate tones of a confession. And furthermore, William Carter, has done his work, as his subject, Proust has done his work, without leaving behind the least trace of any evidence of the intense and agonizing work that made his work possible. Finally, I have found William Carter's noble efforts here in these thirty lectures on Proust's art, along with his answers to our questions for him, to be in and of themselves, an inspiration for further reading, and study, following the path he has set for us . . .

    Peter Albert McKay

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Testimonials

  • The course is WONDERFUL. You simply cannot appreciate how it has enhanced my reading. I felt fairly alone at time, en face de Proust. This course has opened up a world which I sensed, but which I can now piece together.

    Barbara Pilsbury

  • Your lectures have widened my understanding and given me new things to think about. My sincere thanks to you and to Nic. This course has obviously been a labor of love for you two as the course fee is in no way proportionate to the service provided by you.

    Cathy Lamb

  • I am enjoying your fascinating first lecture.

    Peter Albert McKay

  • Thank you, Bill. I am just getting started, have always wanted to read Proust but felt I needed a structured environment. What a great thing for you to do.

    Denise Middlebrooks

  • Enjoying the course—well done. This was my second reading of Proust and to be able to do this within the context of a course gave me so much more than reading it alone. This was fun!

    Deborah Hendel

  • Just writing to tell you that I am loving doing the course—and finally reading Proust properly, something I have wanted to do since living in Paris many years ago. Your guidance, intimate knowledge, and passion for Proust are inspirational.

    Brita Lomba