num_pages: 784
description: 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).
language: English
title: Sodom and Gomorrah
titlecomplete: Sodom and Gomorrah (In Search of Lost Time, #4)
characters: Albertine Simonet, Narrator/Marcel, Mme Swann, Françoise de Combray, Charles Swann, Baron de Charlus, Odette de Crécy, Gilberte Swann, Robert de Saint-Loup
genres: 20th Century, Philosophy, French Literature, Literary Fiction, Novels, Literature, Classics, Romance, Fiction, France
ratings_count: 8093
series: À la recherche du temps perdu
publisher: Modern Library Classics