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Sarasota News Leader March 15, 2013 Page 74 work that is dead, that no longer speaks to us held view that it is a complicated work that could prove laborious or overly challenging and mainly for us." for the average reader. Carter went on to explain that part of the reason In Search of Lost Time remains both Those who have read the book, however, ofrelevant and appreciated a century after its ten find such characterizations unfair. publication is that the narrative deals with "Proust is not difficult," Van Tuyl told The universal themes such as the creative process, Sarasota News Leader in an interview after memory and the individual's reflection on past the March 5 lecture. (She helped organize experiences. many of the New College events.) "He's dense, In spite of the relatability of the story — in he's complex, but he's very readable," she conwhich a narrator expounds on his own in- tinued, explaining that those who have enterability to write while recounting numerous tained the idea of reading In Search of Lost Time should not hesitate to dive right into it. memories from his past — many prospective readers have been deterred from beginning In Dezon-Jones — who has authored numerous Search of Lost Time. People are often daunt- works on Proust, including a mystery novel ed by the book's length — it surpasses 4,000 titled, Murder Chez Proust, published in 1994 pages in certain editions — and the commonly under the pseudonym Estelle Monbrun — Proust scholars William C. Carter (left), and Marilyn Sachs pose following the Proust Project Sarasota kickoff lecture at New College. Carter's Proust biography, Proust: A Life, will be reissued at the end of this month by Yale University Press, and Sachs' upcoming book In Search of a Lost Source: Marcel Proust in the Light of William James, will be published this year by Lexington Books.