{"product_id":"in-search-of-lost-time-sodom-and-gomorrah-v-4-9780375753107","title":"In Search of Lost Time: Sodom and Gomorrah V. 4","description":"\u003ci\u003eSodom and Gomorrah\u003c\/i\u003e opens a new phase of \u003ci\u003eIn Search of Lost Time\u003c\/i\u003e. 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.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFor 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 \u003ci\u003eÁ la recherché du temps perdu\u003c\/i\u003e (the final volume of these new editions was published by the Bibliothèque de la Pléiade in 1989).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMarcel Proust\u003c\/b\u003e was born in the Parisian suburb of Auteuil on July 10, 1871. He began work on \u003ci\u003eIn Search of Lost Time\u003c\/i\u003e sometime around 1908, and the first volume, \u003ci\u003eSwann's Way, \u003c\/i\u003ewas published in 1913. In 1919 the second volume, \u003ci\u003eWithin a Budding Grove, \u003c\/i\u003ewon the Goncourt Prize, bringing Proust great and instantaneous fame. Two subsequent installments--\u003ci\u003eThe Guermantes Way\u003c\/i\u003e (1920-21) and \u003ci\u003eSodom and Gomorrah\u003c\/i\u003e (1921)--appeared in his lifetime. The remaining volumes were published following Proust's death on November 18, 1922: \u003ci\u003eThe Captive\u003c\/i\u003e in 1923, \u003ci\u003eThe Fugitive\u003c\/i\u003e in 1925, and \u003ci\u003eTime Regained\u003c\/i\u003e in 1927.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Modern Library","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51811642605842,"sku":"9780375753107","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_ff97e178-4869-478d-af3c-1ef7243b92d2.jpg?v=1766487311","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/in-search-of-lost-time-sodom-and-gomorrah-v-4-9780375753107","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}