Literary critic Harold Bloom wrote that "In Search of Lost Time" is now "widely recognized as the major novel of the twentieth century". Vladimir Nabokov, in a 1965 interview, named the greatest prose works of the 20th century as, in order, "Joyce's "Ulysses", Kafka's "The Metamorphosis", Bely's "Petersburg", and the first half of Proust's fairy tale "In Search of Lost Time"". J. Peder Zane's book "The Top Ten: Writers Pick Their Favorite Books", collates 125 "top 10 greatest books of all time" lists by prominent living writers; "In Search of Lost Time" is placed eighth. In the 1960s, Swedish literary critic Bengt Holmqvist described the novel as "at once the last great classic of French epic prose tradition and the towering precursor of the 'nouveau roman'", indicating the sixties vogue of new, experimental French prose but also, by extension, other post-war attempts to fuse different planes of location, temporality and fragmented consciousness within the same novel. Pulitzer Prize-winning author Michael Chabon has called it his favorite book.