In Popular Culture
- In 1955 Andy Warhol published a book titled A La Recherche du Shoe Perdu. The publication marked Warhol's "transition from commercial to gallery artist".
- In Haruki Murakami's 1Q84, 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.
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