But this necessary attentiveness is abetted and facilitated by the compactness of the graphic format. As Goldhammer writes in his introduction, The reader new to Proust must attend closely, even in this compressed rendering, to the novels circling rhythms and abrupt cross-cuts between different places and times. This New York Times best-selling graphic adaptation reveals the fundamental architecture of Prousts work while displaying a remarkable fidelity to his language as well as the novels themes of time, art, and the elusiveness of memory.

Now, in what renowned translator Arthur Goldhammer says might be likened to a piano reduction of an orchestral score, the French illustrator Stphane 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. 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. Book Synopsis With its sweeping digressions into the past and reflections on the nature of memory, Prousts oceanic novel In Search of Lost Time looms over twentieth-century literature as one of the greatest, yet most endlessly challenging, literary experiences. About the Book Originally published in French as Du caotae de chez Swann: aEdition Intaegrale from aA La Recherche du Temps Perdu by Marcel Proust, adapted by St74ephane Heuet-Title page verso.

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