My enduring memory of Burgess was on a highbrow literary quiz show where he failed to identify a passage from Proust. Chagrined and with as straight a face as h

My enduring memory of Burgess was on a highbrow literary quiz show where he failed to identify a passage from Proust. Chagrined and with as straight a face as he could muster he explained that he had only ever read Proust in French.