In Search of Lost Time Volume IV Sodom and Gomorrah

by Marcel Proust

C K Scott Moncrieff (Translator), Terence Kilmartin (Translator), and D J Enright

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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).
  • ISBN10 0375753109
  • ISBN13 9780375753107
  • Publish Date 16 February 1999
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Modern Library