Firkin and the Grey Gangsters is a collection of four tales in which animals are the heroes. Firkin is a young red squirrel who leads his people in a battle against a horde of grey squirrelinvaders from America. The Sheep who wasn't a Sheep and The White Drake get into the minds of other intelligent farm animals living in rural Scotland.
It is 1934. Five children escape from a cruel orphanage, run away and steal a boat, which they sail around the Outer Hebrides where they explore uncharted new islands.
Der Geschmack einer Madeleine erweckt diese Regung und ruft die Erinnerungen Marcels an seine Kindheit in Combray zurück. Immer wieder versucht er, die vergangene, verlorene Zeit gegenwärtig zu machen. Es sind atmosphärische Details, von denen aus sich ein literarisches Universum entwickelt, das um ein zentrales Thema kreist: Liebe. Seit über 14 Jahren arbeitet Stéphane Heuet an der Umsetzung von Marcel Prousts Literaturklassiker Auf der Suche nach der verlorenen Zeit als Graphic Novel. Mit Combray erscheint nun endlich der erste Teil dieses Mammutprojektes in deutscher Sprache. Der Text ist genial adaptiert und der einzigartige Erzählstil Prousts in ebenso imaginative wie assoziative Bildfolgen umgesetzt.
When the night falls, the unnamed narrator finds it difficult to reign in his galloping thoughts. Night for him means profound loneliness and also the only time when his thoughts and memories come back unbidden, often waking him up in the middle of the night. His thoughts involuntarily go back his past, his country home in Combray and the people who once populated that time... "For a long time I used to go to bed early. Sometimes, when I had put out my candle, my eyes would close so quickly that I had not even time to say "I'm going to sleep." And half an hour later the thought that it was time to go to sleep would awaken me; I would try to put away the book which, I imagined, was still in my hands, and to blow out the light; I had been thinking all the time..." Marcel Proust (1871-1922) was a French novelist, critic, and essayist best known for his monumental novel À la Recherche du Temps Perdu (1913-1927). He is considered by English critics and writers to be one of the most influential authors of the 20th century. Charles Kenneth Scott Moncrieff (1889-1930) was a Scottish writer, most famous for his English translation of most of Proust's À la recherche du temps perdu, which he published under the Shakespearean title Remembrance of Things Past.