IN SEARCH OF LOST TIME, VOL 4(ISBN=9780375753107)

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

　　Marcel Proust was born in Paris in 1871. He studied law at the Sorbonne but was drawn to writing, and published his first work in 1896. After the death of his parents in the early 1900s he gradually withdrew from society, eventually spending the majority of his time in his cork-lined bedroom. In Search of Lost Time is his major work, developed during the last decade of his life. He died in 1922.

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
A NOTE ON THE TRANSLATION (1981)by Terence Kilmartin
A NOTE ON THE REVISED TRANSLATION (1992by D. J. Enright
SODOM AND GOMORRAH
　PART ONE
　PART TWO
  ONE
　　The Intermittencies of the Heart
  TWO
  THREE
  FOUR
NOTES
ADDENDA
SYNOPSIS