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Sarasota News Leader March 15, 2013 At various locations in Sarasota — including New College, Selby Public Library, the Alliance Française de Sarasota and Stakenborg Fine Art — Proust Project Sarasota has and will express appreciation for the many facets of Swann's Way with lectures on the text in English and French by noted academicians from universities across the United States as well as France; participatory book discussions; documentary and film adaptation screenings; an art gallery featuring pieces by artists alluded to in the book; presentations about the book's legacy and its future; and even a lecture relating Proust to neuroscience. Page 72 AN ENDURING WORK During the celebration's opening lecture, Proust: A Centenary Tribute, on March 5 in New College's Mildred Sainer Pavilion, William C. Carter, Ph.D., distinguished professor emeritus of French at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, explained that the book's enduring prestige and popularity are the results of its own merit and not of outside influences. "À la Recherche du Temps Perdu is not a book that has been kept alive by the academy," Carter said to a rapt audience. "No professor in a classroom can breathe life into a During his lecture for Proust Project Sarasota on March 5, William C. Carter commented that the celebration itself is very Proustian. 'We are retrospective; we're looking backwards,' he said. 'But we're also prospective: We're looking into the future.'