Name: Mod lib in Search of Lost Time 4: Sodom and Gomorrah v. 4 (Modern Library)
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Author: Marcel Proust
ISBN: 9780375753107

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Mod lib in Search of Lost Time 4: Sodom and Gomorrah v. 4 (Modern Library)

Type

Physical Book

Author

Marcel Proust

Translated by

Terence Kilmartin

Publisher

Modern Library

Year

1999

Language

English

Pages

768

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

20.4x13.3x3.5 cm

Weight

0.57 kg.

ISBN

0375753109

ISBN13

9780375753107

Edition No.

Synopsis "Mod lib in Search of Lost Time 4: Sodom and Gomorrah v. 4 (Modern Library) "

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).

Marcel Proust

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Marcel Proust (Auteuil, Paris, 1871 – Paris, 1922) was a French novelist, critic, and essayist considered one of the most influential writers of the 20th century. He is famous for his monumental work In Search of Lost Time (À la recherche du temps perdu), a series of seven volumes published between 1913 and 1927, which explore memory, art, and French society of his time. Proust won the prestigious Goncourt Prize in 1919 for the second volume of the saga, In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower. His innovative use of involuntary memory and the stream of consciousness technique deeply marked modern literature. Despite a life marked by illness and isolation, his work is today a universal reference and has been translated into numerous languages.

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