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| Title | : | Sodom and Gomorrah (À la recherche du temps perdu #4) |
| Author | : | Marcel Proust |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 557 pages |
| Published | : | November 1st 2005 by Penguin Classics (first published 1921) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Classics. Cultural. France. European Literature. French Literature |
Marcel Proust
Paperback | Pages: 557 pages Rating: 4.35 | 5313 Users | 439 Reviews
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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 also the insanely haughty Baron de Charlus.
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| Original Title: | Sodome et Gomorrhe |
| ISBN: | 0143039318 (ISBN13: 9780143039310) |
| Edition Language: | English URL http://us.penguingroup.com/nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,9780143039310,00.html?Sodom_and_Gomorrah_Marcel_Proust |
| Series: | À la recherche du temps perdu #4 |
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Ratings: 4.35 From 5313 Users | 439 ReviewsColumn Containing Books Sodom and Gomorrah (À la recherche du temps perdu #4)
this is the volume of ISOLT that michael bay will turn into a big budget summer blockbuster, mark my words. there are action verbs!! verbs, i tells ya! and picture this on the big screen: we open with our hero, crouching behind some flower bushes, unmoving - waiting, just waiting for a bee to come around and assist in the pollination of the flowers.(pshow, whoosh - many michael-bayish essplosions) and although not strictly supported by textual evidence, i expect his little sticky hand was at the--Sodom and Gomorrah (In Search of Lost Time Volume IV)NotesAddendaSynopsis
But sometimes the future is latent in us without our knowing it, and our supposedly lying words foreshadow an imminent reality. Marcel Proust, Sodom and GomorrahReviewing 'Sodom and Gomorrah' puts me in an awkward spot. What are the risks of looking back obliquely on Proust's fourth volume of 'In Search of Lost Time' (ISOLT)? Will any indirect reference to Proust's army of inverts turn me into a pillar of salt? Will I disquiet my friends and my family with funky quotes from Proust's
"The women shall have Gomorrah and the men shall have Sodom" opens this book (the quote is by Alfred De Vigny). And Proust certainly delivers, surprisingly (given the publication year of 1921) covering many points along the sexual spectrum. He writes that in the past he has found himself "...stupidly thinking that people could have but one sort of love." But that's just one of three main plot lines: the second is the Dreyfus affair, and society is far more passionate about Dreyfus than about
Two or three times it occurred to me, for a moment, that the world in which this room and these bookshelves were situated, and in which Albertine counted for so little, was perhaps an intellectual world, which was the sole reality, and my grief something like what we fell when we read a novel, a thing of which only a madman would make a lasting and permanent grief that prolonged itself through his life; that a tiny flicker of my will would suffice, perhaps, to attain to this real world, to
It is not without pleasure that I found all the characters of the Research in this central tome, in which Proust has slipped numerous lines of humour. We will learn more about the personalities of Baron Charlus and Albertine, through the theme of inversion, addressed from the beginning of the novel. The reception at the Princess de Guermantes's house offers, one more treat, a delightful visit to the aristocratic saloons. It is also the opportunity to find the "little nucleus" Verdurin: the
this is the volume of ISOLT that michael bay will turn into a big budget summer blockbuster, mark my words. there are action verbs!! verbs, i tells ya! and picture this on the big screen: we open with our hero, crouching behind some flower bushes, unmoving - waiting, just waiting for a bee to come around and assist in the pollination of the flowers.(pshow, whoosh - many michael-bayish essplosions) and although not strictly supported by textual evidence, i expect his little sticky hand was at the
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