num_pages: 375
description: 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).
language: French
title: Sodome et Gomorrhe I
titlecomplete: Sodome et Gomorrhe I (À la recherche du temps perdu, #4.1)
characters: Narrator/Marcel, Charles Swann, Odette de Crécy, Gilberte Swann, Robert de Saint-Loup, Albertine Simonet, Mme Swann, Françoise de Combray, Baron de Charlus
genres: Fiction, France, French Literature, Philosophy, Literature, Romance, Classics, Novels, 20th Century, Literary Fiction
ratings_count: 8096
series: À la recherche du temps perdu
publisher: Flammarion