In Search of Lost Time: Swann's Way - A Graphic Novel

I didn't love this as much as I thought I would, or as much as reading the novel. The flow of Proust's sublime sentences was broken up by the graphic novel format, and I found it difficult to get into the rhythm of his words, distracted by the pictures and needing to figure out which panel came next. In addition, the abridgment lacked the depth of the original story.

Swann's Way is about memory and imagination and the nature of childhood to endow ordinary scenes with special meaning. Reading it is a very personal, mysterious experience. The provided images took away from that, preventing communion with my own mind and my own memories, and from reflecting more deeply on the nature of Proust's ideas.

Five stars for the novel, three for this incarnation.