Editing In Search of Lost Time (section)

== References in popular culture ==
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*[[Andy Warhol]]'s 1955 book ''A La Recherche du Shoe Perdu'' marked Warhol's "transition from commercial to gallery artist".<ref>Smith, John W., Pamela Allara, and Andy Warhol. ''Possession Obsession: Andy Warhol and Collecting''. Pittsburgh, PA: Andy Warhol Museum, 2002, p. 46. {{ISBN|0-9715688-0-4}}</ref>
*The British television series ''[[Monty Python's Flying Circus]]'' (1969–1974) references the book and its author in two episodes.<ref name=JustTheWords1989>{{cite book |last1=Chapman |first1=Graham |last2=Cleese |first2=John |last3=Gilliam |first3=Terry |last4=Idle |first4=Eric |last5=Jones |first5=Terry |last6=Palin |first6=Michael |title=Monty Python's Flying Circus: Just the Words |publisher=Mandarin |location=London |year=1990 |orig-year=1989 |isbn=0-7493-0226-7 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/montypythonsflyi0000unse }}</ref> In the "[[Fish Licence]]" sketch, [[Mr Praline|Mr. Praline]] mentions that Proust "had an [[haddock|'addock]]" as a pet fish, and warns, when his listener laughs, "if you're calling the author of ''À la recherche du temps perdu'' a looney, I shall have to ask you to step outside!" In another sketch entitled "[[List of Monty Python's Flying Circus episodes#5. The All-England Summarize Proust Competition|The All-England Summarize Proust Competition]]", contestants are required to summarize all of Proust's seven volumes of the novel in 15 seconds.<ref name=JustTheWords1989 />
*Science fiction author [[Gene Wolfe]] cited Proust as an influence, saying: "Proust, of course, was obsessed with some of the same things I deal with in ''[[The Book of the New Sun]]'' – memory and the way memory affects us."<ref>{{Cite journal |last=McCaffery |first=Larry |date=November 1988 |title=On Encompassing the Entire Universe: An Interview With Gene Wolfe |url=https://www.depauw.edu/sfs/interviews/wolfe46interview.htm |journal=[[Science Fiction Studies]] |access-date=2022-09-05 |archive-date=2006-08-14 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060814033541/https://www.depauw.edu/sfs/interviews/wolfe46interview.htm |url-status=live }}</ref> The opening line of his novella ''[[The Fifth Head of Cerberus]]'' is a paraphrase of the first sentence of ''Swann's Way''.
*The 1998 television series ''[[Serial Experiments Lain]]'' concludes with an allusion to the madeleine episode of ''Lost Time''.
*The 2012 television series ''[[Psycho Pass]]'' concludes with a shot of the protagonist, with ''Swann's Way'' (''スワン家の方へ'') opened on his coffee table.
*In [[Larry McMurtry]]'s 1999 novel ''[[Larry McMurtry#Duane Moore series|Duane's Depressed]]'', Duane Moore's therapist assigns him the task of reading the Proust novel.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Houston |first1=Robert |title=Happy Trails |url=https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/99/02/21/reviews/990221.21houst.html |access-date=March 30, 2021 |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=January 7, 1999 |archive-date=April 21, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210421193232/https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/99/02/21/reviews/990221.21houst.html |url-status=live }}</ref> She tells him, "The reason I made you read Proust is because it's still the greatest catalogue of the varieties of disappointment human beings feel."<ref>{{cite news |last1=Smith |first1=Kyle |title=The Underappreciated Genius of Larry McMurtry |url=https://www.nationalreview.com/2021/03/the-underappreciated-genius-of-larry-mcmurtry/ |access-date=March 30, 2021 |work=National Review |date=March 28, 2021 |archive-date=May 27, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240527081843/https://www.nationalreview.com/2021/03/the-underappreciated-genius-of-larry-mcmurtry/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
*In the third episode of the third season of ''[[The Sopranos]]'', "[[Fortunate Son (The Sopranos)|Fortunate Son]]" (2001), [[Tony Soprano]] has a breakthrough about the role the smell of meat plays in triggering his [[panic attack]]s, which his therapist, Dr. [[Jennifer Melfi]], likens to Proust's madeleines.<ref>Archived at [https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/oZoCdl2lJu8 Ghostarchive]{{cbignore}} and the [https://web.archive.org/web/20200710204250/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZoCdl2lJu8 Wayback Machine]{{cbignore}}: {{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZoCdl2lJu8 |title=All this from a slice of gabagool? |date=June 8, 2015 |via=YouTube |access-date=May 17, 2021}}{{cbignore}}</ref>
*In [[Haruki Murakami]]'s ''[[1Q84]]'' (2009), the main character Aomame spends an entire fall locked in an apartment, where the book becomes her only entertainment. Aomame's days are spent eating, sleeping, working out, staring off the balcony to the city below and the Moon above, and slowly reading through ''Lost Time.''<ref>Murakami, Haruki, ''1Q84: Book Three'' (Vintage Books: 2011), p. 29.</ref>
*In [[Ruth Ozeki]]'s ''[[A Tale for the Time Being]]'' (2013), a French edition of the novel is turned into a diary by a handicraft saleswoman in [[Harajuku]]. The diary is bought by protagonist Nao Yasutani, and later discovered by Ruth when it washes ashore in [[British Columbia]].<ref>Ozeki, Ruth, ''A Tale For The Time''.</ref>