In Search of Lost Time

I have stumbled into reading Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time and am now part of a book club that will continue for 2-3 years. 

In Search of Lost Time, also known as, Remembrance of Things Past, is a novel in seven volumes by French author Marcel Proust. The series follows the narrator's recollections of childhood and experiences into adulthood in the late 19th-century and early 20th-century high-society France, while reflecting on the loss of time and lack of meaning in the world. I listened to the Audible version, with each book being about 15 hours (!). 

A few interesting things I have found (and I'll just keep updating this post for myself as time goes by).

Paintings as a companion

Paintings in Proust: A Visual Companion to In Search of Lost Time by Eric Karpeles 

With some 200 paintings beautifully reproduced in full color and texts drawn from the Moncrieff/Kilmartin/Enright translation, as well as concise commentaries on the evolving narrative, this book is an essential addition to the libraries of Proustians everywhere. You can buy it on Amazon here (which I will do!). 

Graphic novel version

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. 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.

In Search of Lost Time: Swann’s Way by Stéphane Heuet/Marcel Proust – review of the graphic novel version

It can be purchased here on Amazon.