The reader who does not have time to read this masterpiece of literature in its original edition - in seven volumes and thousands of pages - can now access the inner universe of Proust through this fabulous manga version.

Written between 1908 and 1922, the novel À la recherche du temps perdu (The search for lost time) is one of the peaks of 20th century literature and has been enormously influential both in the field of literature and philosophy And the theory of art.

Entering the labyrinth of Marcel Proust's memory is to start a wonderful journey culminating in the taste of a cupcake. The memories of an anonymous narrator, with strong reminiscences of the author, are linked to form a network of emotions that manages to stop the destructive effect of time and recover the happiness of the past through memory. In the end, as the author himself asserted, true paradises are the lost paradises.

"I brought a spoonful of tea to my lips, on which I had thrown a piece of muffin. But at the same moment when I swallowed it, with the crumbs of the bun, touched my palate, I shivered, fixed my attention on something extraordinary that was happening inside me. A delicious pleasure invaded me, isolated me, without notion of what caused it. And he made me the vicissitudes of life indifferent, his disasters in harmless and his brevity in illusory, all in the same way that love operates, filling itself with a precious essence; But, rather, that essence is not that it was in me, it was that I was myself. I stopped feeling mediocre, contingent, and deadly. "