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In Search of Lost Time Volume IV Sodom and Gomorrah (Modern Library Classics)

In Search of Lost Time Volume IV Sodom and Gomorrah (Modern Library Classics)

Marcel Proust

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9780375753107
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Published by:
Modern Library
Translated by:
C. K. Scott Moncrieff
Translated by:
Terence Kilmartin
Pub date:
02/16/1999
Binding type:
Paperback
Pages:
784
ISBN:
9780375753107
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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 la recherch du temps perdu (the final volume of these new editions was published by the Biblioth que de la Pl iade in 1989).

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