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In Search of Lost Time Volume IV Sodom and Gomorrah (Modern Library Classics)
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 843.912
EAN: 9780375753107
ISBN: 0375753109
Label: Modern Library
Manufacturer: Modern Library
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 784
Publication Date: February 16, 1999
Publisher: Modern Library
Release Date: February 16, 1999
Studio: Modern Library
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Editorial Review:
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).
Customer Reviews
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Rating:  - "The true persuasion of sexual jealousy": Harold Bloom
Volume IV of "In Search of Lost Time" begins in the afternoon of the day of Princess of Guermantes's party, the one that Marcel had looked forward for so long as his definitive entrance into the world of high society. That afternoon, by spying on them, Marcel discovers with his own eyes, for the first time, homosexuality, in the form of an encounter between the depraved Baron de Charlus and the tailor Jupien, Marcel's neighbor in the property of the Guermantes. Later that evening, Marcel attends ... Read More
Rating: - Wonderful
Sodom and Gomorrah makes it difficult for those who speak of Proust and attempt to reduce his grand work to mere flowery social observation. This is a bold and often disturbing installment of la recherché, as Marcel recalls brutal homosexual sadomasochism among two of the principle characters, and has to deal with great loss and self-loathing.
The narrator also returns us to the superficial world of the Verdurins, where Swann and Odette first made their interactions in Swann in Love. ... Read More
Rating:  - Where are the rest of the Penguin Deluxe Prousts?
I'm dying to buy the last three volumes of In Search of Lost Time in the new Penguin/Viking translations, but I can't find the Deluxe paperbacks with the slighly larger print--not in paperback or in hardback. What's up?
Rating: - Volume 4 -- not volume 5
The naming of the British books makes it very confusing as to which volume is which. A previous review said that this is volume 5, but it is in fact volume 4: Sodom and Gomorrah.
Rating: - a splendid translation and my favorite volume thus far
I am writing here of the "Penguin Proust" translation by John Sturrock. (Much of what appears on this page is misleading, with the editorial matter referring to an audiobook and many reader reviews to an earlier translation. Even first-sentence quote is not from Sturrock's translation!)
Of the four Penguin Proust volumes I've read so far, this is my favorite--a wonderfully funny study of society (if not of sex). Proust specializes in transformations. We'll be introduced to a character and ... Read More
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