Remembrance of Things Past, Volume One: Within a Budding Grove

Marcel Proust; Stéphane Heuet; Stanislas Brézet

ISBN 10: 1561633208 / ISBN 13: 9781561633203

Published by NBM / Comics Lit, New York, 2002

About this Item

1st printing (2002). 48pp. NEAR FINE/NEAR FINE copy, now preserved in archival jacket protector.

Seller Inventory # 025793

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Remembrance of Things Past, Volume One: Within a Budding Grove
• Publisher: NBM / Comics Lit, New York
• Publication Date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1561633208
• ISBN 13: 9781561633203
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Stéphane Heuet
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Sci-Fi & Fantasy

About this title

Synopsis

Following on from the success of Combray the first volume in the adaptation of Proust's masterpiece to graphic novel form, Within A Budding Grove finds Proust, now a teenager, on his first separation from his mother, a holiday taken in a high class beach resort in Normandy. Besides the fleeting visions of young girls, he also keenly observes, without acidity but detached amusement, the petty sophistry of the French upper class in its genteel environs, safely removed from the lower ones. "An important social question is to know whether the pane of glass will always protect the feast of the marvellous beasts and if the obscure people peering at them through the night will not come and pick them out of their aquarium and eat them."

About the Author

Stephane Heuet is the French born artist behind Combray: Remembrance of Things Past Vol 1 (currently available from Turnaround). He currently lives and works in New York.