| In Search of Lost Time: Sodom and Gomorrah V. 4 Revised Edition Contributor(s): Proust, Marcel (Author), Moncrieff, C. K. Scott (Translator), Kilmartin, Terence (Translator) |
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ISBN: 0375753109 ISBN-13: 9780375753107 Publisher: Modern Library OUR PRICE: $18.00 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: February 1999 Annotation: "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 "A la recherche du temps perdu (the final volume of these new editions was published by the Bibliotheque de la Pleiade in 1989). |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Classics - Literary Criticism - Fiction | Literary |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 92027272 |
| Series: Modern Library Classics |
| Physical Information: 1.38" H x 5.22" W x 8.02" (1.26 lbs) 784 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - Ancient (To 499 A.D.) |
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| Publisher 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 la recherch du temps perdu (the final volume of these new editions was published by the Biblioth que de la Pl iade in 1989). |