In Search of Lost Time Volume IV Sodom and Gomorrah

In Search of Lost Time Volume IV Sodom and Gomorrah

by Marcel Proust
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Publisher:
Modern Library
Genre:Fiction
Language: en
Published:1992
ISBN13:9780375753107
ISBN10:0375753109

About the Book

Sodom and Gomorrah opens a new phase of In Search of Lost Time. While watching the pollination of the Duchess de Guer-mantes’s orchid, the narrator secretly observes a sexual encounter between two men. “Flower and plant have no conscious will,” Samuel Beckett wrote of Proust’s representation of sexuality. “They are shameless, exposing their genitals. And so in a sense are Proust’s men and women . . . shameless. There is no question of right and wrong.” For this authoritative English-language edition, D. J. Enright has revised the late Terence Kilmartin’s acclaimed reworking of C. K. Scott Moncrieff’s translation to take into account the new definitive French editions of Á la recherché du temps perdu (the final volume of these new editions was published by the Bibliothèque de la Pléiade in 1989).