In Search of Lost Time: Sodom and Gomorrah

✍ Scribed by Proust, Marcel; Scott-moncrieff, Charles Kenneth; Kilmartin, Terence; Enright, Dennis Joseph

• Book ID: 106923630
• Publisher: Modern Library
• Year: 1957
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 381 KB
• Series: Remembrance of Things Past 4
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780375753107

✦ Synopsis

Review

"The thing about Proust is his combination of the utmost sensibility with the utmost tenacity. He searches out these butterfly shades to the last grain."--Virginia Woolf

Product Description

Sodom and Gomorrah opens a new phase of In Search of Lost Time. While watching the pollination of the Duchess de Guermantes’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 ? la recherch? du temps perdu (the final volume of these new editions was published by the Biblioth?que de la Pl?iade in 1989).