In Search of Lost Time

<p><b>The greatest French literary masterpiece of all time, now in the form of a graphic novel</p></b><p><b>Shortlisted for the Oxford-Weidenfeld prize</p></b><br>______<p><b> 'Sumptuous. Elegant, beautifully paced... completely absorbing' <i>The Guardian</i></p></b><p><b> 'Extraordinary... a triumph' <i>New Statesman</i></p></b><p><b> 'Audacious' <i>Financial Times</i></p></b><br>______<p>Proust's oceanic novel <i>In Search of Lost Time</i> 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><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>