Chilean director's new film Bonsai, shows a 8-year long love affair where the lovers (heterosexuals) have nothing in common except Marcel Proust's Remembrances of Things Past.
In John Irving's novel In One Person, the protagonist, Bill Abbot wants to be a woman after he has an affair with Elaine Hadley, the daughter of his high school History teacher. Bill steals Elaine's bra and reads "Giovanni's Room" (a 1956 novel by James Baldwin which has the most complex representation of homosexuality till date in Western literature) in them.
Literature sneaks in (like death?) through the back doors and all kinds of nooks and crannies.
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