About this book
"John Sturrock's new translation of Sodom and Gomorrah will introduce a new generation of American readers to the literary riches of Marcel Proust. the fourth volume in this edition of In Search of Lost Time - the first completely new translation of Proust's masterpiece since the 1920s - brings us a more comic and lucid prose than English readers have previously been able to enjoy." "Sodom and Gomorrah takes up for the first time the theme of homosexual love - male and female - and dwells on how destructive sexual jealousy can be for those who suffer it. Proust's novel is also an unforgiving analysis of both the decadent high society of Paris and the rise of a philistine bourgeoisie that is on the way to supplanting it. Characters who had lesser roles earlier now reappear in a different light and take center stage, notably Albertine, with whom the narrator believes he is in love, and the insanely haughty Baron de Charlus."--BOOK JACKET.
In Search of Lost Time · 14 books
In publication order- 7 Time Regained 1927
- Sodom and Gomorrah 1920 This book
- Dans l'ombre des jeunes filles fleuries 1978
- I Guermantes 1978
Subjects
- continental european fiction (fictional works by one author)
- english literature
- ficción
- fiction
- fiction, general
- fiction, psychological
- france, fiction
- french literature
- homosexuality
- manners and customs
- novela autobiográfica
- obsessive-compulsive disorder
- social conditions
- social life and customs
- translations from french
- translations into english
- translations into russian
- vida social y costumbres
- villages