REMEMBRANCE OF THINGS PAST, Part One: Combray
Marcel Proust,
adapted by Stephane Heuet
At last brought to the U.S., the best-selling comics adaptation of the great classic of French literature that scandalized the French establishment as reported on the front page of the New York Times! In clear line style a la Tintin.
"Heuet's version succeeds quite well as a beginner's guide to Proust."
-Kirkus Reviews
"For us literary bumbleheads, the sequential-art redo by Stephane Heuet certainly is appreciated."
-Washington Times
"Engaging." -Mike Sangiacomo, Newhouse papers
"Heuet has successfully produced a comics edition that will make Proust's work more accessible."
-Publishers Weekly
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81/2 x11, 72 pp., full color jacketed hardcover: $19.95
ISBN 1-56163-278-3
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81/2 x11, 72 pp., full color paperback: $13.95, ISBN 1-56163-289-9
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Part Two: Within a Budding Grove, vol.1
Marcel Proust, adapted by Stephane Heuet
Proust, now a teenager, describes his first separation from his mother, a vacation taken in a high class beach resort in Normandy. Besides the fleeting visions of young girls, he also keenly observes, without acidity but detached amusement, the petty sophistry of the French upper class in its genteel environs, safely removed from the lower ones. “An important social question is to know whether the pane of glass will always protect the feast of the marvelous beasts and if the obscure people peering at them through the night will not come and pick them out of their aquarium and eat them.”
"Sumptuous and absorbing; the art is lovingly historical, and the whole thing has this comforting, buttery, 19th-century hue that you can almost taste and feel" -Washington Post
"Heuet's whimsical but controlled draftsmanship is a great match for Proust." -Whole Earth Magazine
“Recommended for adult collections that hold Proust’s original.”
-Library Journal
“Offers a wealth of period and aesthetic detail that will delight artists and readers.”
-School Library Journal
81/2x11, 48pp., full color jacketed hardcover: $16.95
ISBN 1-56163-320-8

REMEMBRANCE OF THINGS PAST,
Part Two: Within a Budding Grove, vol.2
Marcel PROUST • Stephane HEUET
In this conclusion to this section of Proust’s classic, we get to understand what he means by ‘budding grove.’ As the summer on the beach winds down, the adolescent Proust is increasingly smitten by the young beauties his age he passes by but never gets to meet... until a well-known painter gives him that very chance. The romantic anticipation, the teasing sensations, the fantasized expectations mixed with the summer sun, the sea breeze... some things never change.
"First covered by TIME.comix in 2001, when volume one appeared, you can see improvements even over that fine debut. Primarily Heuet has cut down on the prose and given us more to look at. His highly detailed costumes and backgrounds have the sumptuousness of a Merchant and Ivory movie." -Andrew Arnold, Time.com
"Stephane Heuet does an outstanding job of lending clarity of vision to a work that confounds the mighty. And if that’s not as successful an adaptation as comics has yet seen, then I stand waiting for the alternative." - Rob Vollmar- Comicbookgalaxy.com
Rated: 4Q Better than Most "A clear example of comic book as fine art." -VOYA
81/2 x 11, 48pp., full color jacketed hardcover: $16.95;
ISBN 1-56163-342-9