Tuesday, September 4, 2018

Proust in cartoons

From Liana Finck, cartoonist: An Incomplete Biography of Marcel Proust (Paris Review). An excerpt:



Bonus trivia: the drooler is Madame de Cambremer, the same character whose head turns into a metronome when she listens to music.

Related reading
All OCA Proust posts (Pinboard)

[Finck writes that her work owes “a debt of information to Edmund Wilson’s biography,” but she means, of course, Edmund White’s biography. I e-mailed to let her know. Now the first panel has White’s name.]

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