“In Search of Lost Time” 🕰️ is a wonderfully rich book of images, and in it Marcel Proust has collected…
Translated from French.
“In Search of Lost Time” 🕰️ is a wonderfully rich book of imagery, in which Marcel Proust has gathered countless metaphors – some superb, some grotesque, some trivial, some grandiose – as perhaps only a certain Charles Baudelaire had done before him. 📖
There have long been attempts to illustrate Proust’s work: Georges Cattaui was the first to compile a photo album 🤵🏻♂️🤵🏻🤵🏼♀️ to show readers the faces of his family and friends. @editionsdelherne have republished this work. There was also “Le Monde de Proust”, photographed 🎞️ by the Nadar studio, which has since been republished by Éditions du Patrimoine. And then there are quite a number of exhibition catalogues 🖼️, as well as coffee-table books such as “L’Herbier de Marcel Proust” 🌸🌼 published by @flammarionlivres and “Le Musée imaginaire de Marcel Proust” published by @thamesandhudson.
Stéphane Heuet adapted “Swann's Way” and “In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower” for @delcourt.bd between 1998 and 2021. Chloé Cruchaudet drew inspiration from Céleste Albaret’s “Monsieur Proust” to create the two-part series “Céleste” published by @soleil.bd.
And I won’t go into the films 🎥 inspired by the Search here: Chantal Ackermann adapted “The Prisoner” in her 2000 film “La Captive”. Nina Companeez adapted the entire “Search” series into a TV film in 2011, whilst Raoul Ruiz directed a beautiful adaptation of “Finding Time Again” 🌟 in 1999, whilst Volker Schlöndorff directed a famous adaptation of “Swann in Love” in 1984, starring Alain Delon as the Baron de Charlus. Finally, Christophe Honoré drew loose inspiration from the eponymous volume when adapting “Guermantes” for the stage at the @comedie.francaise.officiel in 2021. 🎭
In my view, one of the most beautiful picture books about Proust is the one by a collector, Pedro Corréa Do Lago ✨, who published “Marcel Proust: A Life in Letters and Images” with @editions_gallimard. Because…
🖋️ “(…) the memory of a particular image is nothing more than the longing for a particular moment; and houses, roads and avenues are, alas, as fleeting as the years.”
#MarcelProust #proustagram #RTP #CharlesBaudelaire #métaphores
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