In Search of Lost Time Swann's Way

<p>Shortlisted for the Oxford-Weidenfeld prize</p><br><p>This New York Times best-selling graphic adaptation of Proust's classic is an accessible yet still faithful rendering of Swann's Way.</p><br><p>'Sumptuous, elegant, beautifully paced...completely absorbing' The Guardian</p><br><p>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. </p><br><p>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.</p>