In Search of Lost Time (GN)

Swanns Way

Marcel Proust, Stephane Heuet, Arthur Goldhammer

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Miscellaneous
03 December 2019

Graphic novels: literary & memoirs; Fiction-related items; Graphic Novel; TV and Movie Adaptation; Fantasy Adaptation

With its sweeping digressions into the past and reflections on the nature of memory, 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. Influencing writers like Virginia Woolf and James Joyce, and even anticipating Albert Einstein in its philosophical explorations of space and time, In Search of Lost Time is a monumental achievement and reading it is a rite of passage for any serious lover of literature.

Now, in what renowned translator Arthur Goldhammer says might be likened to a piano reduction of an orchestral score, the French illustrator Stephane 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 New York Times best-selling 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. As Goldhammer writes in his introduction, The reader new to Proust must attend closely, even in this compressed rendering, to the novel's circling rhythms and abrupt cross-cuts between different places and times. But this necessary attentiveness is abetted and facilitated by the compactness of the graphic format.

In this first volume, Swann's Way, the narrator Marcel, an aspiring writer, recalls his childhood when-in a now-immortal moment in literature-the taste of a madeleine cake dipped in tea unleashes a torrent of memories about his family's country home in the town of Combray. Here, Heuet and Goldhammer use Proust's own famously rich and labyrinthine sentences and discerning observations to render Combray like never before. From the water lilies of the Vivonne to the steeple and stained glass of the town church, Proust's language provides the blueprint for Heuet's illustrations. Heuet and Goldhammer also capture Proust's humor, wit, and sometimes scathing portrayals of Combray's many memorable inhabitants, like the lovelorn Charles Swann and the object of his affection and torment, Odette de Crecy; Swann's daughter, Gilberte; local aristocrat the Duchesse de Guermantes; the narrator's uncle Adolphe; and the hypochondriac Aunt Leonie.

Including a Proust family tree, a glossary of terms, and a map of Paris, this graphic adaptation is a surprising and useful companion piece to Proust's masterpiece for both the initiated and those seeking an introduction.

By: Marcel Proust
Adapted by: Stephane Heuet
Translated by: Arthur Goldhammer
Imprint: Miscellaneous
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 279mm, Width: 218mm, Spine: 23mm
Weight: 1.073kg
ISBN: 9781631496479
ISBN 10: 1631496476
Pages: 240
Publication Date: 03 December 2019
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Marcel Proust (1871-1922) was a French novelist, essayist, and critic, most famous for his autobiographical series of novels, In Search of Lost Time. Stephane Heuet is a French comic artist who is five volumes into his comic adaptation of In Search of Lost Time. He lives in Paris. Arthur Goldhammer has translated more than 125 books from the French, including Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty, and is an Officier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.

Reviews for In Search of Lost Time (GN): Swanns Way

[T]he graphic novel brings an immediacy to the infrastructure of Proust's story, which he set in real neighborhoods boasting recognizable landmarks, all reproduced here in exacting detail.... It makes for an intriguing introduction to the novels, if you've never made the leap--a kind of literary gateway drug--and a tantalizing refresher course, if you have.--Glen Weldon