A strange affair with reading the second volume of In Search of Lost Time: In The Shadow of Young Girls in Flower, the graphic novel version, within 24 hours, when the original text took me almost two weeks to read. Perhaps a critical difference between a graphic novel adaption and reading the original book, translated by James Grieve. However, it doesn’t mean that the graphic novel lacks substance or textures because it is a beautiful medium for telling the story. To a degree, it is a more organic approach to adapting a novel because it is both a book and one that uses less text but with detailed illustrations/art. The story is the basis, the Graphic novel is an articulation of that work, and then the cinema is a representation of the book. Still, one would need to know a skilled surgeon to focus on the difference between the three mediums.
Love these graphic novels. Makes Proust truly accessible.