In Search of Lost Time: Mahler after Proust

A twist on the French literary classic In Search of Lost Time told through Nicolas Mahler’s distinctive graphic novel style.

Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time is one of the most important works of French literature—if not the most important. Reading it can be life-changing. Nicolas Mahler’s comic is not a retelling of this classic, nor a shortened version of Proust’s monumental work. Rather, it is a surprisingly funny graphic novel, comically disrespectful of the celebrated work yet c...