In Search of Lost Time: Sodom and Gomorrah
Marcel Proust & Charles Kenneth Scott-moncrieff & Terence Kilmartin & D. J. Enright
Language: English
Authors; French Autobiographical Fiction Bildungsromans Classics European Fiction France France - Social Life and Customs French General Literary Literary Criticism Villages
Publisher: Modern Library
Published: Jan 2, 1957
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"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
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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 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 Á la recherché du temps perdu (the final volume of these new editions was published by the Bibliothèque de la Pléiade in 1989).