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

Proust, Marcel

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1805334816 ISBN 13: 9781805334811

Publisher: Pushkin Press, 2025

Synopsis

The greatest French literary masterpiece of all time, now in the form of a graphic novel

Shortlisted for the Oxford-Weidenfeld prize

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‘Sumptuous. Elegant, beautifully paced… completely absorbing’ The Guardian

‘Extraordinary… a triumph’ New Statesman

‘Audacious’ Financial Times

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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.

About this title

About the Authors

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.

Stéphane Heuet is an artist and comics illustrator, born in Brest, France, in 1957. The son of a naval officer, he is himself a keen sailor, and in 2010 he published a collection of 18 maritime stories by authors such as Pierre Mac Orlan and Herman Melville with watercolour illustrations.

Edition details

• Publisher: Pushkin Press
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1805334816
• ISBN 13: 9781805334811
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Heuet Stéphane
• Number of pages: 234