Swann's Way (Illustrated)

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. "e;Flower and plant have no conscious will,"e; Samuel Beckett wrote of Proust's representation of sexuality. "e;They are shameless, exposing their genitals. And so in a sense a...