Marcel Proust

In Search of Lost Time Volume IV Sodom and Gomorrah - Modern Library Classics Marcel Proust

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).