Remembrance of Things Past, Volume 1 - Within a Budding Grove

Proust, Marcel; Brezet, Stanislas; Heuet, Stephane

ISBN 10: 1561633208 / ISBN 13: 9781561633203

Edité par NBM Publishing, 2002

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Ex-Library book with appropriate stamps, stickers and markings. Mylar covered dust jacket showing some wear to head and tail of spine. Pages clean and unmarked. roust, 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. .

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Remembrance of Things Past, Volume 1 - Within a Budding Grove
• Éditeur: NBM Publishing
• Date de parution: 2002
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 1561633208
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781561633203
• Reliure: Hardcover
• État de l'article: Good
• État de la jaquette: Good

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Synopsis

Following on from the success of Combray the first volume in the adaptation of Proust's masterpiece to graphic novel form, Within A Budding Grove finds Proust, now a teenager, on his first separation from his mother, a holiday 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 marvellous 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."

À propos de l?auteur

Stephane Heuet is the French born artist behind Combray: Remembrance of Things Past Vol 1 (currently available from Turnaround). He currently lives and works in New York.