Teaching Proust

In his book, Proust's Way: A Field Guide to In Search of Lost Time, Roger Shattuck writes:

The resourceful independent reader can now find a way through the maze and take sensible shortcuts. Recent editions contain useful summaries. On the other hand, reading Proust in an organized course with a competent teacher to set the level of understanding and interpretation and with perceptive students willing to participate in discussions can develop into a very rewarding collective experience. But a term or semester course is too short and often leads to intense frustration at the end. (24-25)

Well, it isn't perfect, but I think that sense of frustration often was present in our classes and perhaps this is why we ended up with five hour classes. But, then, a practical question appears: how does one "teach" Proust? It seems to me that even a full year course would not be long enough. As I am entering that dreaded last year of the PhD/first year of the job search, I've thought more and more about teaching. Proust is a text that seems like the ultimate challenge to teach and yet strangely there are a large number of books teaching one how to read Proust. At one point, I said to Eva-Lynn, that if I were to teach In Search of Lost Time, I think I'd start with Part One of Sodom and Gomorrah and then go back to Swann's Way and work our way through to Time Regained, always with the infamous inversion essay in mind. So, back to question: how would you teach Proust?

J.A.