In Search of Lost Time, Vol 4

Nov 28, 2025 5:08 AM

Author:Marcel Proust,C. K. Scott Moncrieff,Terence Kilmartin,D. J. Enright

THE ACCLAIMED FULLY REVISED EDITION OF THE SCOTT MONCRIEFF AND KILMARTIN TRANSLATION

In Sodom and Gomorrah Proust's narrator not only depicts the class tensions of a changing France at the beginning of the twentieth century but also exposes the decadence of aristocratic Parisian society and muses upon the subjects of homosexuality and sexual jealousy.

Reviews

A giant miniature, full of images, of superimposed gardens, of games conducted between space and time

—— Jean Cocteau

One of the cornerstones of the Western literary canon

—— The Times

Proust isn't just the most profound of novelists, but the most entertaining, too

—— Independent

The way he replicates the workings of the mind changed the art of novel-writing forever...his style is extraordinary, enveloping, captivating

—— Guardian

The plot is as gripping as any soap opera, the jokes come thick and fast...Proust's is a world entire - so why not take it with you anywhere in the world?

—— Will Self , Independent on Sunday

The way he replicates the workings of the mind changed the art of novel-writing forever...his style is extraordinary, enveloping, captivating

—— Guardian

My favourite novel... You expect a boring novel about Edwardian marriages. This could not be more misleading. It’s a gothic melodrama with a high body count

—— Ned Beauman , Guardian

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