In Search of Lost Time

Adaptations

Print

  • The Proust Screenplay, a film adaptation by Harold Pinter published in 1978 (never filmed).
  • Remembrance of Things Past, Part One: Combray; Part Two: Within a Budding Grove, vol. 1; Part Three: Within a Budding Grove, vol. 2; and Part Four: Un amour de Swann, vol. 1 are graphic novel adaptations by Franco-Belgian comics artist Stéphane Heuet in 1988.
  • Albertine, a parallel novel based on a rewriting of Albertine by Jacqueline Rose. Vintage UK, 2002.

Audio

  • Remembrance of Things Past narrated by Neville Jason for Naxos Audiobooks, abridged 1995-2002, unabridged 2010-2012.

Film

  • Basileus Quartet (Quartetto Basileus), a 1982 film by Fabio Carpi, uses segments from Sodom and Gomorrah and Time Regained.[30]
  • Swann in Love (Un Amour de Swann), a 1984 film by Volker Schlöndorff starring Jeremy Irons and Ornella Muti.
  • Time Regained (Le Temps retrouvé), a 1999 film by Raúl Ruiz starring Catherine Deneuve, Emmanuelle Béart, and John Malkovich.
  • La Captive, a 2000 film by Chantal Akerman.

Television

  • Les Cent Livres des Hommes: "Du côté de chez Swann", a 1971 episode by Claude Santelli starring Marie-Christine Barrault and Isabelle Huppert.
  • The Modern World: Ten Great Writers: "Marcel Proust's 'A la recherche du temps perdu'", a 1988 episode by Nigel Wattis starring Roger Rees.
  • À la recherche du temps perdu (2011) by Nina Companéez, a four-hour, two-part French TV movie that covers all seven volumes.

Stage

  • Proust ou les intermittences du coeur, a ballet by Roland Petit. Premiered at Opéra de Monte-Carlo in 1974 by Ballet National de Marseille.[31]
  • A Waste of Time, by Philip Prowse and Robert David MacDonald. A 4-hour long adaptation with a huge cast. Dir. by Philip Prowse at the Glasgow Citizens' Theatre in 1980, revived 1981 plus European tour.
  • Remembrance of Things Past, by Harold Pinter and Di Trevis, based on Pinter's The Proust Screenplay. Dir. by Trevis (who had acted in A Waste of Time – see above) at the Royal National Theatre in 2000.[32]
  • Eleven Rooms of Proust, adapted and directed by Mary Zimmerman. A series of 11 vignettes from In Search of Lost Time, staged throughout an abandoned factory in Chicago.
  • My Life with Albertine, a 2003 Off-Broadway musical with book by Richard Nelson, music by Ricky Ian Gordon, and lyrics by both.
  • Du côté de chez Proust, a 2005 solo performance adapted and acted by Jacques Sereys, directed by Jean-Luc Tardieu, performed again in 2012 at the Comédie-Française.
  • Le Côté de Guermantes, adapted and directed by Christophe Honoré, created in 2020 at Comédie-Française's Théâtre Marigny, with Loïc Corbery, Laurent Lafitte and Dominique Blanc.

Radio

  • The Proust Screenplay, a radio play adapted from Harold Pinter's screenplay by Michael Bakewell, directed by Ned Chaillet, featuring Pinter as narrator, broadcast on BBC Radio 3 on May 11, 1997.[33]
  • In Search of Lost Time dramatised by Michael Butt for The Classic Serial, broadcast on BBC Radio 4 between February 6, 2005 and March 13, 2005. Starring James Wilby, it condensed the entire series into six episodes. Although considerably shortened, it received excellent reviews.[34]
  • Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time, translated from French and dramatised by Timberlake Wertenbaker and broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2019, with Derek Jacobi as the narrator.[35]

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