In Search of Lost Time: Swann's Way - A Graphic Novel
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A new graphic novel adaptation of the Proust classic
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.
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Read the subtitle before you start telling me what an amazing reader I am. Full disclosure here: It's a graphic novel of Proust's mega-tome. I must say that it fully satisfied my desire to read Proust. I got the tone of it, the way Proust zooms into one moment so that you experience it in all its real-life complexity. Graphic novels, I admit, aren't my favorite genre; too often, I find the text reads banally when combined with cartoonish pictures. That did not happen here, perhaps because the text is too rich to be diluted in a graphic novel.
I recommend it, then. I recommend it for those of us who don't want to spend several years of our lives reading a single albeit highly praised novel. I recommend it for those of us who want to see what all the fuss is about. I can't say if this little graphic novel is a good substitute for the real thing (since I haven't cracked the real thing) but it felt good enough for me.
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8 primary booksÀ la recherche du temps perdu - Adaptation graphique is a 7-book series with 7 primary works first released in 1919 with contributions by Marcel Proust, Arthur Goldhammer, and 3 others.
