Author: Marcel Proust
Year: 1921
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Culture: France
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9780375753107
9780143039310
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opens a new phase of
. 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
(the final volume of these new editions was published by the Bibliothèque de la Pléiade in 1989).
This book is part of the "In Search of Lost Time" series. Here are some other books from this series:
 | "Time Regained"
First published in 1927
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 | "Finding Time Again"
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 | "The Fugitive"
First published in 1925
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 | "The Guermantes Way"
First published in 1920
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 | "Swann's Way"
First published in 1913
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