In Search of Lost Time Volume IV Sodom and Gomorrah

Marcel Proust, C.K. Scott Moncrieff, Terence Kilmartin , D.J. Enright

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French

Random House Inc
15 April 1999

Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Series: Modern Library Classics

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 recherche du temps perdu (the final volume of these new editions was published by the Biblioth que de la Pleiade in 1989).

By: Marcel Proust
Revised by: D.J. Enright
Translated by: C.K. Scott Moncrieff, Terence Kilmartin
Imprint: Random House Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: New edition
Volume: 4
Dimensions: Height: 204mm, Width: 130mm, Spine: 33mm
Weight: 533g
ISBN: 9780375753107
ISBN 10: 0375753109
Series: Modern Library Classics
Pages: 784
Publication Date: 15 April 1999
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Marcel Proust was born in the Parisian suburb of Auteuil on July 10, 1871. He began work on In Search of Lost Time sometime around 1908, and the first volume, Swann’s Way, was published in 1913. In 1919 the second volume, Within a Budding Grove, won the Goncourt Prize, bringing Proust great and instantaneous fame. Two subsequent installments—The Guermantes Way (1920–21) and Sodom and Gomorrah (1921)—appeared in his lifetime. The remaining volumes were published following Proust’s death on November 18, 1922: The Captive in 1923, The Fugitive in 1925, and Time Regained in 1927.

Reviews for In Search of Lost Time Volume IV Sodom and Gomorrah

The thing about Proust is his combination of the utmost sensibility with the utmost tenacity. He searches out these butterfly shades to the last grain. --Virginia Woolf