In Search of Lost Time Volume IV Sodom and Gomorrah
, by Proust, Marcel; Moncrieff, C.K. Scott; Kilmartin, Terence; Enright, D.J.Note: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
- ISBN: 9780375753107 | 0375753109
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 2/16/1999
Sodom and Gomorrahopens a new phase ofIn 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 ofA la recherche du temps perdu(the final volume of these new editions was published by the Bibliotheque de la Pleiade in 1989).