Proust's seven-volume novel follows an unnamed narrator's involuntary memories — most famously a madeleine dipped in tea — through the loves, society, and art of belle-époque and wartime France.
Books that mention In Search of Lost Time (9)
The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolaño: “the kind of person or freak who's unable to read all the way through In Search of Lost Time, for example, or The Magic Mountain ... or for that matter, Les Misérables or War and Peace.”
My Salinger Year by Joanna Rakoff: “...listening to Arlo Guthrie and reading the third volume of Remembrance of Things Past, which he'd informed me was properly called In Search of Lost Time.”
1Q84 by Haruki Murakami: ““How about Proust's In Search of Lost Time?” Tamaru asked. “If you've never read it this would be a good opportunity to read the whole thing.””
How to Read and Why by Harold Bloom: “comparable to Joyce's Ulysses and Proust's In Search of Lost Time.”
The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett: “The Queen's ignorance of Proust was, unlike the foreign secretary's, soon to be remedied, as Norman straightaway looked him up on the internet and, finding that the novel ran to thirteen volu[mes]”
The Naive and the Sentimental Novelist by Orhan Pamuk: “The great literary novels—such as Anna Karenina, In Search of Lost Time, The Magic Mountain, and The Waves”
There but for the by Ali Smith: “'Yes, but he's big in A La Recherche, her father said'”