In search of lost time Swann's Way /
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...
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| Format: | Books Print Book Comic & Graphic Novel |
| Language: | English French |
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New York :
Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company,
[2015]
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| Series: | In search of lost time ;
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| Summary: | 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 lillies 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 Crécy; Swann's daughter Gilberte; local aristocrat the Duchesse de Guermantes; the narrator's uncle Adolphe; and the hypochondriac Aunt Léonie. 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. |
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| Item Description: | "Originally published in French as Du coté de chez Swann: Edition Integrale from A La Recherche du Temps Perdu by Marcel Proust, adapted by Stéphane Heuet, 2013."--Title page verso. |
| Physical Description: | viii, 224 pages : chiefly color illustrations, maps, genealogical tables ; 29 cm |
| ISBN: | 9781631490354 1631490354 9781631496479 1631496476 |
| Author Notes: | Remembrance of Things Past resists summary. Seeming at turns to be fiction, autobiography, and essay, Remembrance is a vast meditation on the relationship between time, memory, and art. In it the narrator, who bears the same first name as the author, attempts to reconstruct his life from early childhood to middle age. In the process, he surveys French society at the turn of the century and describes the eventual decline of the aristocracy in the face of the rising middle class. The process of reconstruction of Marcel's past life is made possible by the psychological device of involuntary memory; according to this theory, all of our past lies hidden within us only to be rediscovered and brought to the surface by some unexpected sense perception. In the final volume of the work, the narrator, who has succeeded in recapturing his past, resolves to preserve it through the Work of Art, his novel. He died of pneumonia and a pulmonary abscess in 1922. He was buried in the Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris. (Bowker Author Biography) |
