In Search of Lost Time - (Modern Library Classics) by Marcel Proust (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>"This translation is a revised edition of the 1981 translation of Cities of the plain by C.K. Scott Moncrieff and Terence Kilmartin, published in the United States by Random House, Inc., and in Great Britain by Chatto & Windus. Revisions by D.J. Enright"--T.p. verso.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><i>Sodom and Gomorrah</i> opens a new phase of <i>In Search of Lost Time</i>. 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." <p/>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 <i>Á la recherché du temps perdu</i> (the final volume of these new editions was published by the Bibliothèque de la Pléiade in 1989).<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"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<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Marcel Proust</b> was born in the Parisian suburb of Auteuil on July 10, 1871. He began work on <i>In Search of Lost Time</i> sometime around 1908, and the first volume, <i>Swann's Way, </i>was published in 1913. In 1919 the second volume, <i>Within a Budding Grove, </i>won the Goncourt Prize, bringing Proust great and instantaneous fame. Two subsequent installments--<i>The Guermantes Way</i> (1920-21) and <i>Sodom and Gomorrah</i> (1921)--appeared in his lifetime. The remaining volumes were published following Proust's death on November 18, 1922: <i>The Captive</i> in 1923, <i>The Fugitive</i> in 1925, and <i>Time Regained</i> in 1927.
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