num_pages: 908
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.”
language: English
title: In Search of Lost Time, Vol. 3: Sodom and Gomorrah & The Captive
titlecomplete: In Search of Lost Time, Vol. 3: Sodom and Gomorrah & The Captive
genres: Classics, France, Novels, Literature, Fiction
ratings_count: 219
series: À la recherche du temps perdu
publisher: Everyman's Library Classics