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The second volume of Stephane Heuet's adaptation of Marcel Proust's epic literary reminiscence "In Search Of Lost Time" takes the action beyond the madeleine as the narrator engages with adolescence and increasing social awareness. Heuet's take on "Swann's Way" was praised by "NPR" as 'a literary gateway drug'.
About the author
Marcel Proust was born in Paris in 1871. His family belonged to the wealthy upper middle class, and Proust began frequenting aristocratic salons at a young age. Leading the life of a society dilettante, he met numerous artists and writers. He wrote articles, poems, and short stories (collected as Les Plaisirs et les Jours), as well as pastiches and essays (collected as Pastiches et Mélanges) and translated John Ruskin's Bible of Amiens. He then went on to write novels. He died in 1922.
Summary
The follow-up to the New York Times-bestselling first volume of the graphic novel adaptation hailed as a 'Proust for the people', In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower unveils Proust beyond the madeleine. The defining French novel, Proust's In Search of Lost Time is best known for the Combray scenes which appear near the beginning of the first o
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‘Captures the essence of Proust beautifully' The Economist
‘Brilliant . . . Heuet’s love of Proust shines through in his inventive drawings’ The Independent
‘Audacious . . . Heuet’s strip is particularly strong on the images that constitute the life of the mind, on the way landscapes are magnified by expectation or softened by nostalgia’ Financial Times
'A triumph’ New Statesman
'Resplendent' TLS
‘Sumptuous, elegant and beautifully paced, it is completely absorbing…I’ll be forever glad to have spent so much time bent over it’ The Observer
‘A literary gateway drug’ NPR
