Word: proust
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...very fine, full color, hardcover literary adaptations by top comix artists. In the past few months they have produced three exceptionally well-done works: "The Yellow Jar," based on Japanese folk tales, "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde," based on the Robert Louis Stevenson novella, and an adaptation of Marcel Proust's immense "Remembrance of Things Past...
...third installment of Stephane Huete's Proust project - which will likely last until 2020 - has just been released in English. With the intention of adapting all seven volumes of the French masterpiece, Huete's latest continues the story of volume two: "Within a Budding Grove." Set at a French seaside resort at the turn of century, the narrator is a young man of delicate temperament. Vacationing among the idle rich, our hero spies a group of young women around the resort and has his fancy drift from one to the other. Who will the young man choose and will...
While the President may never get to the point where he reads Proust and savors escargot, these quiet steps that he and his wife have taken will eventually make an impression on his critics. And when that happens, the ad hominem attacks will have to change. This should not be too hard on the cartoonists and columnists who love to attack him. All they have to do is shift their focus from Bush’s intelligence to his policies...
...experts, says Malkovich, but Europe can yield magisterial figures like the late Pier Paolo Pasolini, a political thinker, novelist and film director. Another inspiration: Jean-François Revel, whose bestselling book, The Anti-American Obsession, is only the latest reflection of the author's catholic interests from Proust to political philosophy. "Here there is more apt to be infiltration from one form to another," Malkovich says. The theme of crossover - between theater and film, directing and acting, France and the U. S. - is central to Malkovich's life. Early next year he'll release The Dancer Upstairs, the first...
...struggling to prevent Coyote, Chabon's semiappealing Satan figure, from poisoning the waters that nourish the Tree of the World, which holds up the four worlds, which can be magically traversed by scampering around the Tree, which...Let's just say that when it comes to elaborate plotting, Proust has nothing on Chabon...