English language
Published Nov. 19, 2003 by Penguin Classics.
In search of lost time
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Monty Python paid hommage to Proust's novel in a sketch first broadcast on November 16th, 1972, called The All-England Summarize Proust Competition. The winner was the contestant who could best summarize A la recherche du temps perdu in fifteen seconds, "once in a swimsuit and once in evening dress."
Subjects
- Proust, Marcel, -- 1871-1922 -- Translations into English.
- France -- Social life and customs -- Fiction.