Proust's LesbianismFor decades, Elisabeth Ladenson says, critics have misread or ignored a crucial element in Marcel Proust's fictionhis representation of lesbians. Her challenging new book definitively establishes the centrality of lesbianism as sexual obsession and aesthetic model in Proust's vast novel A la recherche du temps perdu. Traditional readings of the Recherche have dismissed Proust's "Gomorrah"his term for women who love other womenas a veiled portrayal of