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...folly or masterpiece, the French comix artist Stéphane Heuet has decided to adapt Marcel Proust's "Remembrance of Things Past." Proust's masterwork, a seven-volume, 4000-plus page French novel published between 1913 and 1922 will become twelve comicbook volumes published between 1998 and perhaps 2020. The first of these has now been translated into English (NBM Publishing, $19.95, hardcover...
...after all, the text was written by Marcel Proust, who, based strictly on my experience with this book, justly enjoys his reputation as a very fine writer. There are lovely passages that evoke the original's themes of memory, loss, sensation, nature, and the ability of art to make all of this clear. The famous madeleine sequence, for example, has been adapted with great care: keeping the narrative visually-oriented, including wisps of steam that cross over the panels, while using passages of text to evoke the feeling of not only the events but the book itself: "Will it reach...
Attendance was low despite the 36 Harvard student groups that have endorsed the initiative. Ebie and Marcel L. Anderson '03, who also helped plan the event, attributed the low turnout to the hectic time of year for students...
...United Nations may be trying to send the elderly a message. For next year's World Assembly on Aging, the U.N. chose a mime as its spokesman and goodwill ambassador. "I do not know why they chose me," said MARCEL MARCEAU before a performance in Connecticut last week. "They asked me. I didn't ask for it. Maybe because I'm an example of vitality?" Indeed, Marceau, 78, still performs his sad, white-faced act 200 times a year. He's less clear on what his U.N. duties will be. "I don't know. What did Muhammad...
...Today Vermeer is acknowledged as one of the leading artists of the past 500 years. His influence extended to the Impressionists, Marcel Proust - and criminals. Many of his 35 works have been stolen (one, 'The Concert', is still missing), and in the 1930s and '40s a forger named Hans van Meegeren made millions of dollars with at least six high-class fakes before being caught and imprisoned...