Remembrance of Things Past: Combray

Stephane Heuet

Stephane Heuet has taken on the unenviable, and quite Herculean, task of adapting form. Combray, the opening part of the novel Swann's Way, is the first offering in the series.

This is not your typical graphic novel, but then one would be hard-pressed to adapt Remembrance... in traditional graphic novel form. There's a whole lot of exposition, and many pretty pictures, and very little dialogue. Heuet's people look more than a tad like Herge's, which has me constantly wondering when Snowy and the Captain are going to barge into any given scene, but that's a minor distraction. The story is-- obviously-- abridged, but it still serves, so far, as a fine introduction to Proust for, say, the high-school set.