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| Author/Contributor(s): |
Proust, Marcel; Moncrieff, C.K. Scott; Kilmartin, Terence; Enright, D.J.
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| Publisher: |
Modern Library
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| Date: |
2/16/1999
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| Binding: |
Paperback
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| Condition: |
NEW
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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).
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