Remembrance of Things Past Part Three: Swann in Love

Stéphane Heuet’s adaptation of Marcel Proust’s literary masterpiece, Remembrance of Things Past, continues with Part Three: Swann in Love. Published by NBM in a single 2007 issue, this graphic novel volume focuses on Charles Swann’s obsessive romance with Odette de Crécy. Heuet’s delicate, ligne claire artwork and Joe Johnson’s translation bring Proust’s intricate social world to comics, making this a distinctive bridge between high literature and sequential art. It matters as a patient, visually refined entry in the ongoing effort to render Proust’s epic in a new medium.