false 35750 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1168634670m/35750.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1168634670s/35750.jpg 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).]]> 18799 43 850515 1921 Sodom and Gomorrah: In Search of Lost Time, Volume 4 (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) total:396|5:233|4:98|3:57|2:7|1:1| 396 1743 779 40 233619 4.29 7607 1020 63763275 3784 35750 0375753109 9780375753107 7 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1168634670m/35750.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1168634670s/35750.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35750.In_Search_of_Lost_Time_Volume_IV_Sodom_and_Gomorrah 4.52 50 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).]]> 1921 5 3 false Tue Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 16 14:01:43 -0700 2009 Fri Sep 25 18:56:07 -0700 2009
Volume IV was good for me. It started off with a bang (ha, ha), and his absorption with how gays and lesbians fit into society got a little old, but on the whole I liked his forays into society better than at the end of Vol. III. Maybe I...more...]]> 13303808 210176 35750 0375753109 9780375753107 7 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1168634670m/35750.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1168634670s/35750.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35750.In_Search_of_Lost_Time_Volume_IV_Sodom_and_Gomorrah 4.40 396 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).]]> 1921 3 1 true Thu Feb 28 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Wed Jan 23 13:24:28 -0800 2008 Thu Feb 28 16:48:27 -0800 2008 more...]]> 53638482 141875 18799 0143039318 9780143039310 24 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167095074m/18799.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167095074s/18799.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18799.Sodom_and_Gomorrah_In_Search_of_Lost_Time_Volume_4 4.39 259 1921 4 0 false Fri May 22 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 22 14:56:17 -0700 2009 Fri May 22 18:59:25 -0700 2009 more...]]> 59213576 1797553 18799 0143039318 9780143039310 24 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167095074m/18799.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167095074s/18799.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18799.Sodom_and_Gomorrah_In_Search_of_Lost_Time_Volume_4 4.40 396 1921 5 12 false Sat Jul 11 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 10 18:18:25 -0700 2009 Sun Jul 12 06:23:20 -0700 2009 Ah, Proust, damn you. Damn you, damn you. You tricked me. You took me along for a pleasant ride, one filled with glorious introspection, a “slice” of life so elongated and plotless (at least as much as in real life), that I expected to be carried gently through ...more...]]> 68714185 2348551 18799 0143039318 9780143039310 24 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167095074m/18799.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167095074s/18799.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18799.Sodom_and_Gomorrah_In_Search_of_Lost_Time_Volume_4 4.40 396 1921 5 0 true Mon Aug 24 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 24 12:30:59 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 01 10:51:28 -0700 2009
Proust is sometimes like those directors who do continuous takes with deep focus and tots of slow motion contemplation of the scenery. Sometimes it gets stifling, the number of overlays, like he is following the ad...more...]]> 66593678 2265568 18799 0143039318 9780143039310 24 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167095074m/18799.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167095074s/18799.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18799.Sodom_and_Gomorrah_In_Search_of_Lost_Time_Volume_4 4.40 396 1921 5 0 false Fri Aug 07 18:23:09 -0700 2009 Fri Aug 07 18:27:22 -0700 2009 more...]]> 72107607 167336 18799 0143039318 9780143039310 24 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167095074m/18799.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167095074s/18799.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18799.Sodom_and_Gomorrah_In_Search_of_Lost_Time_Volume_4 4.40 396 1921 4 0 false Sun Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 22 08:14:52 -0700 2009 Wed Dec 02 11:28:55 -0800 2009 more...]]> 68270878 426277 35750 0375753109 9780375753107 7 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1168634670m/35750.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1168634670s/35750.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35750.In_Search_of_Lost_Time_Volume_IV_Sodom_and_Gomorrah 4.40 396 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).]]> 1921 5 0 false Thu Nov 19 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Aug 20 18:55:17 -0700 2009 Thu Nov 12 10:24:12 -0800 2009 more...]]> 21850906 1008088 18799 0143039318 9780143039310 24 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167095074m/18799.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167095074s/18799.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18799.Sodom_and_Gomorrah_In_Search_of_Lost_Time_Volume_4 4.40 396 1921 5 0 false Fri May 30 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu May 08 08:10:35 -0700 2008 Fri May 30 20:20:40 -0700 2008 more...]]> 12259544 749395 18799 0143039318 9780143039310 24 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167095074m/18799.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167095074s/18799.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18799.Sodom_and_Gomorrah_In_Search_of_Lost_Time_Volume_4 4.40 396 1921 5 2 false Fri Aug 15 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Jan 11 11:15:54 -0800 2008 Wed Dec 10 21:41:46 -0800 2008 more...]]> 8028674 565673 133540 014118034X 9780141180342 1 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172023479m/133540.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172023479s/133540.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/133540.Sodom_and_Gomorrah 4.50 4 1921 0 0 false Sun Oct 21 11:43:32 -0700 2007 Sun Oct 21 11:43:32 -0700 2007 http://nhw.livejournal.com/973188.html[return][return]Sodom and Gomorrah puts homosexuality front and centre; at the very beginning, we discover that the monstrous Baron de Charlus is in fact perpetually on the lookout for attractive men; and throughout the second half of the book the narrator is to...more...]]> 3105230 180643 1382302 0713996072 9780713996074 1 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1183136928m/1382302.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1183136928s/1382302.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1382302.Sodom_and_Gomorrah_In_Search_of_Lost_Time 4.17 6 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).]]> 1921 4 0 false Wed Nov 19 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun Jul 15 15:25:31 -0700 2007 Thu Dec 17 00:42:43 -0800 2009 more...]]> 27135526 197320 1632752 0713996099 9780713996098 1 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1186132055m/1632752.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1186132055s/1632752.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1632752.In_Search_of_Lost_Time 4.80 5 1921 4 0 false Sat Jul 19 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Jul 13 13:22:54 -0700 2008 Tue Jul 22 09:54:17 -0700 2008 more...]]> 61994237 1206681 6588221 9724230856 1 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1246604952m/6588221.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1246604952s/6588221.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6588221-sodoma-e-gomorra 4.00 1 1921 4 0 false Wed Aug 05 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 03 00:08:47 -0700 2009 Thu Aug 06 00:29:46 -0700 2009 more...]]> 79984670 310639 18799 0143039318 9780143039310 24 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167095074m/18799.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167095074s/18799.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18799.Sodom_and_Gomorrah_In_Search_of_Lost_Time_Volume_4 4.40 396 1921 5 0 false Sat Dec 05 11:40:05 -0800 2009 Sat Dec 05 11:41:15 -0800 2009 19644473 1062878 35750 0375753109 9780375753107 7 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1168634670m/35750.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1168634670s/35750.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35750.In_Search_of_Lost_Time_Volume_IV_Sodom_and_Gomorrah 4.40 396 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).]]> 1921 0 0 false Mon Apr 07 09:32:22 -0700 2008 Mon Apr 07 09:51:14 -0700 2008 more...]]> 24558645 197320 18799 0143039318 9780143039310 24 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167095074m/18799.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167095074s/18799.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18799.Sodom_and_Gomorrah_In_Search_of_Lost_Time_Volume_4 4.40 396 1921 4 0 false Mon Jun 23 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Jun 15 13:38:26 -0700 2008 Sun Jun 29 10:11:50 -0700 2008 more...]]> 65702785 2547522 18799 0143039318 9780143039310 24 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167095074m/18799.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167095074s/18799.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18799.Sodom_and_Gomorrah_In_Search_of_Lost_Time_Volume_4 4.40 396 1921 0 1 false Fri Jul 31 16:12:48 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 31 16:13:29 -0700 2009 53918667 46160 18799 0143039318 9780143039310 24 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167095074m/18799.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167095074s/18799.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18799.Sodom_and_Gomorrah_In_Search_of_Lost_Time_Volume_4 4.40 396 1921 5 0 false Sat Apr 25 08:45:34 -0700 2009 Sat Apr 25 08:46:03 -0700 2009 9467595 83507 35750 0375753109 9780375753107 7 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1168634670m/35750.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1168634670s/35750.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35750.In_Search_of_Lost_Time_Volume_IV_Sodom_and_Gomorrah 4.40 396 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).]]> 1921 5 0 false Sun Jul 19 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Nov 23 18:34:39 -0800 2007 Sun Jul 19 15:43:15 -0700 2009 more...]]> 8 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=35750