In Search of Lost Time: In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower

In what renowned translator Arthur Goldhammer called a piano reduction of an orchestral score, the first volume of Stéphane Heuets adaptation of In Search of Lost Time electrified the graphic community like no otherre-presenting the novel for anyone who has always dreamed of reading Proust but was put off by the sheer magnitude of the undertaking. Whereas the first volume described the narrators childhood in the pastoral town of Combray, the second volume portrays the narrators foray into adolescence, set in the opulent seaside resort of Balbec. Preserving Prousts original dissection of the spontaneity of youth, translator Laura Marris captures the narrators infatuation with his playmateshis memories of their intoxicating afternoons together unfolding as if in a dream. Featuring some of Prousts most memorable charactersfrom mysterious Charlus to beguiling young Albertinethis second volume becomes a necessary companion piece for any lover of modern literature.