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Paperback: 576 pages Publisher: Penguin Classics; Deluxe (November 01 2005) Costumer Rating:  Read an Excerpt Chapter 1: Part 1 Chapter 1: Part 1 Chapter 1: Part 2 Book Description The fourth volume in Penguin's acclaimed new translations of In Search of Lost Time. Sodom and Gomorrah - now in a superb translation by John Sturrock - takes up 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 in earlier volumes 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. About the Author
Marcel Proust was born in Auteuil in 1871. His father, an eminent Professor of Medicine, was Roman Catholic and his mother was Jewish, factors that were to play an important role in his life and work. He was a brilliant, very literary schoolboy, and later a half-hearted student of law and political science. In his twenties he became an assiduous society figure, frequenting the most fashionable Paris salons of the day. » More by Marcel Proust John Sturrock John Sturrock is a writer and critic who has previously translated Victor Hugo, Stendhal, and Rimbaud. A consulting editor at the London Review of Books, he lives in West Sussex, England.. » More by John Sturrock | |||||||
Marcel Proust