: Marcel Proust
: In Search of Lost Time Swann's Way, A Graphic Novel
: Pushkin Press
: 9781805334620
: 1
: CHF 5.20
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: Comic
: English
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Shortlisted for the Oxford-Weidenfeld prizeThis New York Times best-selling graphic adaptation of Proust's classic is an accessible yet still faithful rendering of Swann's Way.Proust's oceanic novel In Search of Lost Time looms over twentieth-century literature as one of the greatest, yet most endlessly challenging, literary experiences. Now, in what renowned translator Arthur Goldhammer says might be 'likened to a piano reduction of an orchestral score,' the French illustrator Stéphane Heuet re-presents Proust in graphic form for anyone who has always dreamed of reading him but was put off by the sheer magnitude of the undertaking.This graphic adaptation reveals the fundamental architecture of Proust's work while displaying a remarkable fidelity to his language as well as the novel's themes of time, art, and the elusiveness of memory.

MARCEL PROUST was born in Auteuil in 1871. As a young man he became an eminent society figure, frequenting Paris's most exclusive salons. Following the death of his mother, Proust's already poor health began to deteriorate further, and he increasingly withdrew from society. He started writing In Search of Lost Time in 1908 and worked on its seven volumes until his death in 1922, spending most of the final three years of his life confined to a cork-lined bedroom.