![]() Mahler’s next literary-graphic work was Alice in Sussex-not an adaptation but a pairing of Lewis Carroll’s beloved work with H.R. The second was Robert Musil’s The Man without Qualities, which has something playful and Proustian about its grand themes and delicate language. His first publication was a version of Old Masters by Thomas Bernhard, a fellow Austrian known for his experimental novels written in dense prose. Mahler, a Vienna-based cartoonist-illustrator for newspapers and magazines, started his own mode of visual storytelling of literary classics in 2011. This is Mahler’s own take, caricaturing the original text, holding a funhouse mirror to it, playing games with it, and yet conveying the essence of it. This graphic novel based on In Search of Lost Time is not the usual literal adaptation (Stéphane Heuet has already done that in multiple volumes). Notably, this scene and these lines are Mahler’s own. ![]() In a mere two pages, with whimsical images and scribbles, Mahler captures both the heart of Proust’s masterpiece and the core of readers’ continued devotion to it. ![]() … as they do not give us the best they have to offer right off the bat.” “But, then, such great masterpieces are less disappointing than life… “As I could only love what the sonata had brought to me little by little… ![]() In Nicolas Mahler’s graphic adaptation of Proust’s masterpiece, the narrator (“Marcel”, not named here) sits down before the piano and plays that sonata. Nicholas Mahler translated by Alexander Booth Seagull Books Pages: 174 Price: Rs.699 ![]()
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