Swann's Way (Illustrated)
Author | : Marcel Proust |
Publisher | : BookRix |
Total Pages | : 883 |
Release | : 2014-04-23 |
ISBN-13 | : 9783736802988 |
ISBN-10 | : 3736802986 |
Rating | : 4/5 (86 Downloads) |
Download or read book Swann's Way (Illustrated) written by Marcel Proust and published by BookRix. This book was released on 2014-04-23 with total page 883 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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).