num_pages: 400
description: 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.
language: English
title: In Search of Lost Time, Volume 4: Sodom and Gomorrah
titlecomplete: In Search of Lost Time, Volume 4: Sodom and Gomorrah
characters: Albertine Simonet, Charles Swann, Françoise de Combray, Odette de Crécy, Baron de Charlus, Narrator/Marcel, Gilberte Swann, Mme Swann, Robert de Saint-Loup
genres: Classics, France, Philosophy, Novels, Romance, 20th Century, Literature, French Literature, Fiction, Literary Fiction
ratings_count: 8093
series: À la recherche du temps perdu
publisher: Penguin Classics