false 9888336 409480 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).]]> 233619 4.29 7607 1020 1921 0 0 false Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Mon Dec 03 11:58:30 -0800 2007 Mon Dec 03 11:58:46 -0800 2007